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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The icebreaker Shirase sails near Japan's Showa Base in Antarctica in this 2016 file photo. The vessel left Tokyo's Harumi pier on Sunday for the icy continent.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin has linked the territorial row between Japan and Russia to Tokyo's security alliance with the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-13T18:34:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[University students listen to a company presentation at Rikunabi Live, a job fair hosted by Recruit Career Co. at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba, in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-13T18:41:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-13T18:51:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-13T18:53:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks during a Tokyo Metropolitan Government panel session last November on how to turn Tokyo into an international financial hub. While the Japanese capital aims to attract more talented foreign fund managers, some experts say that the current inheritance tax may hinder that effort.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/13/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/southeast-asian-nations-not-taking-south-china-sea-thaw-granted-draft-statement-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T18:58:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-13T20:02:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue personnel conduct hunt for survivors following a 7.3-magnitude earthquake at Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran's Kermanshah province on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/13/national/japanese-firms-find-profits-in-going-green/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T20:06:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Kuwabara]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/13/national/number-system-begins-sharing-data-government-bodies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T20:22:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[My Number identification documents are distributed at the Itabashi Ward Office in Tokyo in January 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/13/business/uber-softbank-investment-worth-10-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T20:25:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group President Masayoshi Son speaks at a press conference in Tokyo Nov. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/13/national/crime-legal/record-number-dual-nationality-holders-became-japanese-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T20:25:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of dual nationality holders who opted for Japanese citizenship rose by more than 500 from the previous year to 3,368, the fastest increase in the past five years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/13/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-li-meeting-sign-improving-japan-china-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T22:00:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang talk in Manila on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/13/national/two-patents-belt-aichi-junior-high-school-girl-looks-help-inventive-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-13T23:59:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asuka Kamiya, who launched a company to support students seeking to apply for patents, is seen with her father, Toyoaki, in Anjo, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/13/national/science-health/japan-try-worlds-smallest-satellite-carrying-rocket/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T04:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Jan. 15 launch of a small SS-520 rocket had to be aborted when a glitch caused a communications failure.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/13/business/corporate-business/mizuhos-april-september-profit-falls-11-5-weak-lending/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T04:27:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past a Mizuho Bank branch in Tokyo last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/myanmar-military-denies-atrocities-rohingya-replaces-general-charge-rakhine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T06:51:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya Muslims wait to cross the border to Bangladesh, in a temporary camp outside Maungdaw, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/business/russias-rt-american-registers-foreign-agent-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T07:10:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/national/science-health/japan-based-name-chibanian-set-represent-geologic-age-last-magnetic-shift/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T10:22:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A stratum discovered in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, shown in this photo taken Monday is set to represent a geologic time period from 770,000 to 126,000 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-asean-leaders-meet-discuss-free-open-regional-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T11:02:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations take part in a photo session ahead of their annual summit Monday in Manila.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/world/social-issues-world/jordan-switches-worlds-largest-solar-plant-refugee-camp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T11:05:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian refugee children play during a sand storm at the Zaatari refugee camp on Monday. Some 80,000 Syrian refugees living in the Zaatari camp will have access to 14 hours of electricity per day instead of eight hours, thanks to the opening of the new solar power station.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/13/national/aki-higuchis-mission-giving-japans-young-minds-global-outlook-confidence-speak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T11:57:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aki Higuchi, founder of Selan Inc., says she wants to expand children's views through education.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/business/not-easy-dispel-japans-deflationary-mindset-formed-15-years-kuroda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T14:52:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda sits for a photographer before delivering a speech at the University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/business/japans-fresh-grads-falling-behind-pay-race-monthly-wage-averages-%c2%a5213000/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T15:06:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pay for new graduates in Japan is said to be far below their counterparts in the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/13/national/crime-legal/offices-aum-successor-adelph-raided-recruiting-practices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T15:31:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers stand guard during a search of a facility believed to be used by the Aum Shinrikyo successor group Aleph in Sapporo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/world/science-health-world/drinking-age-oldest-evidence-wine-making-found-near-tbilisi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T15:46:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Neolithic pottery vessel about 1-meter wide and 1-meter tall is seen in a photo released this month. Researchers announced Monday that they have found shards of similar vessels, about 8,000 years old, south of Tblisi, which had come from the base of jars that were probably used for fermentation and storage of wine.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/national/crime-legal/tokyo-nursing-home-worker-admitted-killing-resident-bed-wetting-police-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T15:47:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nursing care facility where an 83-year-old male resident was allegedly killed by a caregiver is seen Tuesday in Nakano Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-korea-caught-time-warp-must-send-signs-change-seoul-top-diplomat-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T15:58:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kang Kyung-wha]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/national/politics-diplomacy/vet-school-center-abe-favoritism-scandal-gets-final-ok-open/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T18:40:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/national/politics-diplomacy/former-south-korean-envoy-japan-detained-illegal-payment-allegations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T19:20:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former South Korean ambassador to Japan Lee Byung-kee speaks to reporters on Tuesday in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/national/osaka-gov-ichiro-matsui-heads-paris-boost-bid-2025-world-expo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T19:22:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui speaks to reporters at Kansai airport on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/asia-pacific/north-koreas-winter-training-means-fewer-missile-launches/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T20:14:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A purported North Korean test-launch of a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range missile is seen in this photo distributed by state media on Aug. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-14T20:16:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ministers in charge of the China-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership trade framework attend a preparatory meeting Sunday in Manila.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-gov-yuriko-koike-step-kibo-no-co-head-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T20:26:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuriko Koike]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/national/politics-diplomacy/asean-plus-three-leaders-share-concerns-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T20:26:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang attend a photo session in Manila on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/business/u-s-commerce-chief-urges-japanese-carmakers-cut-exports-build-autos-america/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T20:27:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Motors Corp. vehicles in Nagoya await shipment.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/world/science-health-world/u-s-approves-digital-pill-tracks-patients-take/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T22:47:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-14T22:47:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-14T22:47:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in addresses the 20th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Plus Three Commemorative Summit on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Manila on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/business/tech/vietnamese-researcher-demonstrates-iphone-x-face-id-hack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-14T23:11:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An attendee uses a new iPhone X during a presentation for the media in Beijing on Oct. 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-15T04:23:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar's State Councellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi looks on during the ASEAN Canada 40th Anniversary Commemorative Summit on the sidelines of the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Manila on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-15T08:04:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Justice Department on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-15T10:31:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-15T12:00:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, accompanied by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), speaks with reporters following the party luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-suggests-japan-china-can-resume-leaders-visits-next-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-15T14:08:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a news conference Tuesday in Manila.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/national/politics-diplomacy/new-guidelines-fail-close-loopholes-covering-official-documents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-15T14:46:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[These are daily logs of Ground Self-Defense Force activities in South Sudan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/world/iran-quake-survivors-battle-freezing-cold-waiting-aid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-15T14:49:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boy rides a bicycle through the rubble of damaged buildings in the town of Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran's western Kermanshah province, near the border with Iraq, on Tuesday, following a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that left hundreds dead and thousands homeless two days earlier.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/british-parliament-opens-ill-tempered-debate-brexit-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-15T14:54:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May makes a speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet at the Guildhall in London's financial district on Monday. Beside her is the lord mayor of the City of London, Charles Bowman.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/world/russia-carried-cyberattacks-british-media-energy-telecom-sectors-gchq/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-15T16:28:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/business/honda-carmakers-warn-semi-catastrophic-u-k-output-halts-brexit-causes-eu-car-certificate-limbo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-15T16:48:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-Brexit protesters wave flags and a placard outside the Houses of Parliament in London Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/business/corporate-business/japans-taxi-prince-fights-keep-uber-bay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-15T17:56:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Kawanabe, chairman of Nihon Kotsu Co., poses for a photograph in Tokyo on Sept. 15. Kawanabe is aiming to shake up his own ¥1.72 trillion ($15 billion) industry with a taxi-hailing app. He also plans to offer fixed-rate pricing and carpooling.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/asia-pacific/u-s-congress-urged-require-chinese-state-journalists-register-foreign-agents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-15T18:09:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/business/corporate-business/kobe-steel-loses-jis-certification-copper-products/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-15T18:38:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kobe-a-20171116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kobe Steel Ltd. has lost its Japanese Industrial Standard certification for more of its copper products amid a data fabrication scandal.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/national/outreach-effort-aimed-winning-public-nuke-waste-disposal-sites-seen-targeting-kids-rewards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-15T19:07:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Minoru Nakamura, senior executive director of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, bows at a news conference Tuesday in Tokyo, as the organization admitted that students were offered rewards for attending government events related to nuclear waste disposal sites.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/national/japanese-towns-look-draw-foreign-tourists-virtual-reality-videos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-15T20:07:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-vr-b-20171116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A scene from the Kabura festival is displayed on the Bibai City VR iPhone app.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/business/economy-business/japan-rides-export-recovery-longest-gdp-growth-streak-since-2001/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-15T20:55:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-gdp-a-20171116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's economy grew for seventh straight quarter, its longest expansion since 2001.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/business/economy-business/japans-longest-growth-run-16-years-may-not-guarantee-future-prosperity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-15T20:56:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People cross streets at Tokyo's shopping and entertainment district of Shibuya in Tokyo in September. Japan reported its economy expanded at a 1.4 percent annualized rate in July-September, slowing from the previous quarter.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/national/politics-diplomacy/koikes-latest-dramatic-exit-expected-damage-reputation-kibo-no/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-15T20:56:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuriko Koike]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/business/one-japan-firm-refocused-steel-plates-fancy-phone-screens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-15T21:25:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With Apple Inc. selling its first phone boasting an organic light-emitting diode display — a sharp, vibrant screen that uses less energy — Japan Steel Works is counting on that being good for its own bottom line.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/national/science-health/japanese-doctor-exposed-drug-didnt-work-calls-morality-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-15T21:25:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The building that houses the Novartis Pharma K.K. offices stands in Minato Ward, Tokyo. A cardiologist who has followed the data manipulation scandal involving the firm’s hypertension drug Diovan recently won a journalism prize for his work.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/business/japan-eu-agree-increase-effort-conclude-free-trade-talks-soon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T04:45:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/national/number-foreign-visitors-japan-18-3-percent-january-october-period/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T05:41:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors are seen at the famous Sensoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo's historic Asakusa district.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/business/financial-markets/wall-street-economists-odds-traders-share-yellens-guess-inflation-comeback/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T08:23:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk along Wall Street in front of the New York Stock Exchange.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/two-senate-republicans-oppose-partys-tax-plan-posing-headwinds-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T11:24:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taxes-a-20171117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., followed at right by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., walks past boxes of petitions supporting the Republican tax reform bill that is set for a vote later this week as he arrives for a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-choke-artist-rubio-moment-fumbles-water-speech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T11:25:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump drinks water from a bottle as he delivers remarks on Wednesday in the Diplomatic Room at the White House in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/merkels-potential-coalition-partners-want-nuclear-arms-germany-without-mentioning-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T11:31:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-merkel-a-20171117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel, also leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, arrives for further exploratory talks with members of potential coalition parties to form a new government on Wednesday in Berlin.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/national/crime-legal/drunken-brawl-shines-light-sumos-hidden-underbelly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T12:12:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sumo grand champion Harumafuji (right) poses for a photo when he visited the Fukuoka Prefectural Government on Oct. 31 with another wrestler Kisenosato(left). Police started investigation Wednesday into Harumafuji's alleged assault against fellow Mongolian wrestler Takanoiwa late last month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/national/wine-times-beaujolais-nouveau-released-japan-amid-declining-demand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T12:15:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-wine-a-20171117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-wine-a-20171117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women taste Beaujolais Nouveau in Tokyo's Shinjuku district, soon after the wine for 2017 was released after midnight Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/national/working-moms-japanese-politics-juggle-hectic-life-aided-outside-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T15:20:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo assembly member Ryoko Fujita delivers a speech in front of a train station in Ota Ward on Sept. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/national/joc-gives-sapporo-go-ahead-bid-2026-winter-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T15:30:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/asia-pacific/evoking-diverse-heritage-pakistan-unveils-1700-year-old-sleeping-buddha/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T15:47:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Decapitated statues are seen in a niche at an archaeological site near Haripur, Pakistan, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-meets-adm-harris-commander-u-s-pacific-command-vows-strengthen-alliance-amid-north-korea-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T17:24:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talks with Adm. Harry Harris (left), commander of U.S. Pacific Command, during a meeting at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/business/ban-lifted-importer-initiates-wagyu-war-indonesia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T17:47:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wagyu beef steaks are seen on a platter at a restaurant in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/business/corporate-business/honda-aggressively-expands-motorcycle-operations-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T17:48:21+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/national/japan-placed-tenth-global-ranking-information-communication-technology-one-spot-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T18:28:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ict-a-20171117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan took the No. 10 spot in a global ranking of nations according to their level of development in information and communication technology]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/national/three-north-koreans-sent-home-sea-japan-ship-wreck-coast-guard-searches-missing-crew/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T18:30:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Coast Guard vessel approaches a capsized North Korean fishing boat in the Sea of Japan on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/national/falling-airplane-parts-stir-fears-new-haneda-flight-routes-ahead-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T18:31:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-haneda-a-20171117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents opposed to the new flight routes planned over central Tokyo hold a meeting Oct. 9 in the Oimachi district.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/national/mother-megumi-yokota-lambastes-abe-administration-lack-progress-north-korean-abductee-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T18:39:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Megumi Yokota is seen wearing a kimono in a January 1977 photo in front of her Niigata Prefecture home. She was abducted by North Korea in November of the same year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/national/crime-legal/former-u-s-base-worker-trial-rape-murder-okinawa-woman-denies-intent-kill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T20:42:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-okinawa-a-20171117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okinawa-a-20171117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The illustration shows Kenneth Franklin Shinzato in the lay judge trial at the Naha District Court on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/business/corporate-business/softbank-seen-planning-25-billion-saudi-investments-including-new-city-neom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T20:45:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/b-softsaud-a-20171117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softsaud-a-20171117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/national/resistance-ruling-ldp-health-ministry-waters-planned-smoking-rules-eateries-bars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T22:54:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-smoking-a-20171117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-smoking-a-20171117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The health ministry has drastically watered down planned regulations on indoor smoking at eateries and bars.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/national/social-issues/shibuya-expo-showcases-innovations-toward-creating-inclusive-society/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-16T23:59:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-welfare-a-20171117.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man tries out a wheelchair that can also move sideways at Super Welfare Expo on Nov. 10 in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/business/corporate-business/subaru-recalls-395000-vehicles-inspection-scandal-including-86/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T05:35:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-subaru-a-20171117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Subaru Corp. issued a recall for about 395,000 vehicles on Thursday following revelations that the carmaker had allowed unauthorized workers to carry out final inspections.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/national/hakuho-denies-harumafuji-hit-fellow-wrestler-takanoiwa-beer-bottle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T07:31:07+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/business/german-court-rules-kuwait-airways-can-ban-israelis-sparking-jewish-outcry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T07:38:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/b-kuwait-a-20171118.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kuwait-a-20171118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kuwait Airways check-in counters at Kuwait Airport are seen in 2012. A German court has ruled that Kuwait's national airline didn't have to transport an Israeli citizen because the carrier would face legal repercussions at home if it did. The Frankfurt state court noted in its verdict Thursday that Kuwait Airways is not allowed to close contracts with Israelis under Kuwaiti law because of the Middle Eastern country's boycott of Israel.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/business/federal-jury-orders-jj-depuy-pay-247-million-six-pinnacle-hip-implant-patients/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T07:44:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/business/u-s-regulators-set-require-disclaimers-internet-election-related-ads-light-russia-meddling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T10:40:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/b-disclaimers-a-20171118.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-disclaimers-a-20171118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, attendis a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism hearing on Russian influence on social networks with representatives from Facebook, Twitter and Google, on Capitol Hill in Washington Oct. 31.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/senators-seek-info-trump-son-law-jared-kushner-probe-russia-backdoor-overture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T10:49:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-kushner-a-20171118.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kushner-a-20171118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington Sept. 12. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein are saying President Donald Trump's son-in-law hasn't been fully forthcoming with the panel's probe into Russian election interference, asking him to provide emails sent to him involving WikiLeaks and a "Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/gop-ranks-senate-speed-approvals-trumps-conservative-judicial-picks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T10:57:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-judges-a-20171118.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-judges-a-20171118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Don Willett testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on nominations on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday. Willett has been nominated to the United States circuit judgeship for the Fifth Circuit.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/national/politics-diplomacy/u-n-body-urges-japan-improve-protection-press-freedoms-amid-secrecy-law-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T11:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/world/social-issues-world/u-s-towns-cities-fear-taxpayer-revolt-republicans-kill-local-levy-deductions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T11:06:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-taxrevolt-a-20171118.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taxrevolt-a-20171118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he walks with Vice President Mike Pence as he departs Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday. Trump urged House Republicans Thursday to approve a near $1.5 trillion tax overhaul as the party prepared to drive the measure through the House. Across the Capitol, Democrats pointed to new numbers showing the Senate version of the plan would boost taxes on lower and middle-income Americans.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-cheers-house-gop-ranks-pass-tax-bill-seen-favoring-rich-dooming-vital-deductions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T11:10:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-housetax-a-20171118.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump (left) walks with House Speaker Paul Ryan Thursday as they leave a meeting with House Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington. Trump is at the Capitol for a pep rally with House Republicans, shortly before the chamber approved the tax bill over solid Democratic opposition.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/news-anchorwoman-accuses-u-s-sen-al-franken-unwanted-groping-kiss-2006-gets-apology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T11:14:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this image provided by the U.S. Army, then-comedian Al Franken and sports commentator Leeann Tweeden perform a comic skit for service members during the USO Sergeant Major of the Army's 2006 Hope and Freedom Tour in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, on Dec. 15, 2006. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., apologized Thursday after Tweeden accused him of forcibly kissing her during the 2006 USO tour.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/world/islamic-state-takes-credit-suicide-bomber-kills-least-nine-near-kabul-political-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T11:16:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-kabul-a-20171118.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People look on at a damaged vehicle after a suicide bomb attack in Kabul Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/business/contentious-keystone-oil-pipeline-leaks-5000-barrels-south-dakota-nebraska-weighs-xl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T11:56:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/national/nine-nuclear-reactors-japan-use-products-manufactured-steelmaker-admitted-faking-quality-data/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T12:24:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reactors 3 and 4 at the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture are seen in this photograph taken in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/16/national/politics-diplomacy/election-win-secured-ldp-resumes-talks-amending-japans-pacifist-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T13:05:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroyuki Hosoda, head of the Liberal Democratic Party's panel promoting constitutional revision, speaks during a meeting at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/national/politics-diplomacy/peace-speech-geneva-japanese-student-canceled-due-china-pressure-government-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T13:29:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-stunukechina-a-20171117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-stunukechina-a-20171117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese student peace ambassadors observe an international disarmament conference in Geneva in August.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/national/crime-legal/thai-van-driver-charged-deaths-four-japanese-tourists-guide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T14:53:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/cambodia-faces-international-rebuke-banning-opposition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T14:57:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cambodia-a-20171118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen waits to attend Independence Day celebrations in Phnom Penh on Nov. 9.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/national/japan-scrutinize-u-n-recommendation-comfort-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T16:02:30+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/business/corporate-business/takeda-pharmaceutical-seeks-deals-cultivates-global-identity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T16:31:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/b-takeda-a-20171118.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-takeda-a-20171118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christophe Weber]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/national/emperor-empress-visit-yoron-island-observe-illusory-sandbar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T17:12:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20171118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko use binoculars to observe the Yurigahama sandbar during their visit Friday to Yoron Island in Kagoshima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/business/orix-corp-s-yoshihiko-miyauchi-salaryman-business-titan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T18:15:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/business/corporate-business/toyota-sell-electric-vehicles-china-2020-may-develop-battery-powered-autos-local-partners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T19:55:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors view cars at Toyota Motor Corp.'s booth on Friday, as the Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition opens at the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/national/crime-legal/airbnbs-japan-arm-denies-violating-antitrust-laws-following-raid-ftc-october/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T20:12:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Airbnb's Japan unit admits to having been raided by the Fair Trade Commission for allegedly violating anti-trust laws.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/national/disposal-low-level-radioactive-waste-fukushima-crisis-begins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T20:18:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers on Friday in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, transport loads of low-level radioactive waste generated by the 2011 nuclear disaster.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/national/politics-diplomacy/key-policy-speech-abe-sounds-alarm-japans-severe-security-environment-ever/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T20:24:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a policy speech in the Lower House on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-ambassador-william-hagerty-touts-trumps-japan-visit-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T21:22:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[William Hagerty]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/business/corporate-business/nissan-cites-poor-communication-safety-check-malpractice-acknowledged-started-1979/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-17T22:26:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. Chief Executive Hiroto Saikawa attends a news conference at the company headquarters in Yokohama on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/national/crime-legal/tottori-police-investigators-travel-tokyo-question-harumafuji-alleged-assault/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-18T11:32:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Harumafuji is escorted by police at Haneda airport Thursday evening after returning to tokyo from Fukuoka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/10/national/crime-legal/police-id-nine-dismembered-corpses-found-mans-zama-flat-including-girl-15/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-18T11:55:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-zama-a-20171111.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police said Friday they had identified all of the nine dismembered bodies found at an apartment in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/18/business/nissan-exec-says-existing-factories-maxed-automaker-may-build-new-plant-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-18T12:05:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/18/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-korea-rules-negotiations-nuclear-weapons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-18T12:39:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Han Tae Song attends an interview at the Permanent Mission of North Korea in Geneva on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/18/asia-pacific/strong-6-3-earthquake-rattles-remote-part-tibet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-18T13:33:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers look at a road blocked by fallen rocks near the town of Paizhen in southwestern China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Saturday after a strong earthquake shook the area.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/18/world/crime-legal-world/sicilian-mafia-unlikely-ever-allow-one-boss-bosses-like-salvatore-riina/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-18T13:35:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Handcuffed Mafia "boss of bosses" Salvatore "Toto" Riina is escorted by Italian paramilitary police into a bunker courtroom in Bologna in January 1996.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/18/business/economy-business/japan-urges-tpp-11-partners-sign-off-pact-elections-held/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-18T15:54:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tppmotegi-a-20171119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshimitsu Motegi]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/18/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-hopes-build-nuclear-powered-space-shuttle-2040/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-18T16:16:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinarockets-a-20171119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two BeiDou-3 satellites are launched aboard a rocket at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China's Sichuan province on Nov. 5.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/national/crime-legal/reported-crimes-japan-fell-1-million-mark-last-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-18T16:20:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-crimes-z-20171118.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-crimes-z-20171118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An annual report says the total number of crimes committed in 2016 dropped to 996,120, marking the 14th consecutive year of decline.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/18/national/history/japans-shifting-attitudes-toward-prostitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-18T22:32:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/business/yoshihiko-miyauchi-orix-ex-ceo-former-head-deregulation-panel-knows-takes-change-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-18T16:21:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-takingthelead-a-20171118.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-takingthelead-a-20171118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihiko Miyauchi]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/18/national/media-national/zama-murders-prompt-awareness-youth-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-18T22:46:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/p17-scheiber-bij-a-20171119.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-scheiber-bij-a-20171119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bedtown blues: Neighbors place flowers near the apartment in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, where the remains of nine murder victims were found in ice chests.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/18/national/adventurer-yasunaga-ogita-begins-solo-trek-south-pole-without-resupplies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-18T19:29:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-southpole-a-20171119.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-southpole-a-20171119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasunaga Ogita poses at the Union Glacier Camp on Thursday, a day before starting a solo trek to the South Pole.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/18/national/disaster-agency-deploy-gas-detectors-rugby-world-cup-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-18T19:35:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-toxicgas-a-20171119.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-toxicgas-a-20171119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction continues at the new National Stadium, the main venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, in Shinjuku Ward in late October. The government plans to deploy gas detectors in major cities as part of counterterrorism measures for the 2019 Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/18/national/trail-runner-dies-100-meter-plunge-off-cliff-saitama-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-18T21:20:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/18/national/emperor-empress-visit-lily-farm-school-cap-three-day-tour-remote-isles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-19T11:28:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-emperor-a-20171119.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20171119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko examine lilies at a farm on Okinoerabu Island in Kagoshima Prefecture on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/14/national/crime-legal/yokozuna-harumafuji-suspected-assaulting-fellow-wrestler-beer-bottle-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-19T12:09:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-harumafuji-a-20171115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-harumafuji-a-20171115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yokozuna Harumafuji speaks to reporters Tuesday in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/19/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-abductee-mom-abe-hold-talks-kim-now/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-19T13:19:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-abductees-a-20171120.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abductees-a-20171120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump meet former abductees and their families in Tokyo on Nov. 6 to discuss the past kidnappings of Japanese by North Korean spies.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-meeting-hariri-says-will-clarify-position-lebanon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-19T13:52:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-harireturn-a-20171120.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-harireturn-a-20171120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron (right), stand with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri and his wife, Lara Hariri, and their elder son, Hussam, at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/19/asia-pacific/cambodian-court-charges-two-u-s-linked-journalists-espionage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-19T13:56:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/19/national/japan-expand-sdf-base-tiny-strategically-important-djibouti/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-19T14:09:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/19/national/fukushima-city-tourism-plans-treasured-akaiyachi-wetland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-19T14:42:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukushimafile-a-20171120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Akaiyachi wetland is seen on Oct. 28 from Mount Okubo in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture. The marsh is a habitat for subarctic plants such as sphagnum moss.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/19/world/german-telecom-agency-bans-childrens-transmitting-smartwatches-spying-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-19T15:59:39+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/gerry-adams-step-end-era-irish-nationalism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-19T16:03:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-adams-a-20171120.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-adams-a-20171120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[shows Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams (center, with beard) and Martin McGuinness (behind Adams) arrive at the historic first session of the newly elected Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont Castle in Belfast on July 1, 1998.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/18/national/media-national/changing-face-shichi-go-san-rite-passage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-19T16:23:27+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/19/business/poor-catches-inflate-salmon-saury-prices-ahead-year-end-holidays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-19T16:49:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-salmon-a-20171120.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-salmon-a-20171120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopper glances at salmon at a fish market in Kushiro, Hokkaido, on Nov. 9.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/19/business/corporate-business/japan-tobacco-taps-exec-international-division-next-president/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-19T19:05:41+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/18/national/labor-ministry-extend-job-program-social-recluses-neets-early-40s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-19T19:43:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-withdrawal-a-20171119.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-withdrawal-a-20171119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Given the nationwide increase in socially withdrawn people, the government has decided to expand its job support program to those in their early 40s.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/18/national/media-national/ad-money-makes-news-world-go-round/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-19T22:54:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-mediamix-a-20171119.jpg]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/asem-foreign-ministers-avoid-discussing-rohingya-issue-reaffirm-stand-terrorism-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T06:46:25+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/business/airbus-faces-high-hurdles-stalled-a380-emirates-deal-including-call-keep-program-going-10-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T06:50:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/b-airbus-a-20171121.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-airbus-a-20171121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fabrice Bregier, chief operating officer of Airbus SE, looks on ahead of a Bloomberg Television interview in Berlin on Thursday. Airbus might yet win a long-anticipated A380 superjumbo order from Gulf carrier Emirates before the end of the year, but must pledge to extend the ailing program for a further decade in order to secure the deal.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/world/social-issues-world/algeria-plucks-286-boat-migrants-en-route-europe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T06:54:26+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/business/lobbyists-every-stripe-swarming-u-s-congress-protect-interests-gop-led-tax-legislation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T09:30:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/common-concern-iran-israeli-minister-reveals-covert-contacts-saudi-arabia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T12:55:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi men chat in front of a poster showing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a regional forum in Riyadh on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-20T13:55:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-20T13:57:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya refugees walk toward a refugee camp after crossing the border in Anjuman Para near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/19/national/politics-diplomacy/ex-white-house-chief-strategist-bannon-hails-japans-natural-evolution-toward-rearming/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T14:02:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steve Bannon]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-20T16:01:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sun Zhengcai]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-20T16:06:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader Angela Merkel speaks after exploratory talks on forming a new government broke down on Sunday in Berlin. Tough talks to form Germany's next government stretched into overtime, putting Merkel's political future in the balance since failure to produce a deal could force snap elections.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-20T16:08:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, hold up a sheet of new $1 bills, the first currency notes bearing his and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza's signatures, on Wednesday at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/19/national/crime-legal/sumo-scandal-deepens-conflicting-accounts-alleged-assault-emerge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T16:10:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sumo Grand Champion Harumafuji is mobbed by reporters as he gets into a vehicle after arriving at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-20T16:11:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A demonstrator celebrates the exit of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe at the Zimbabwe Grounds in Harare on Saturday, when tens of thousands called for the ouster of the 93-year-old leader.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/22/world/may-backtrack-honoring-authoritarian-mugabe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T17:04:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe meets with South African President Jacob Zuma at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria, South Africa, on Oct. 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-20T17:26:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Defense Ministry file photo shows China's H-6 bombers. Four of the bombers, plus two intelligence-gathering aircraft, flew in international airspace near Japanese territory on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/national/manga-series-highlights-nagoyas-unique-charms-cuisine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T17:41:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20171121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Ichinichi Gaishutsuroku Hancho," a manga series published in Young Magazine, depicts Nagoya in a unique way.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/south-korea-step-efforts-boost-number-women-top-public-posts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T17:47:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha poses for a photograph following an interview on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Da Nang, Vietnam, on Nov. 11. Kang is the country's first female foreign minister.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/duterte-offers-telecoms-privilege-philippines-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T18:17:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/national/science-health/ai-armed-system-diagnosing-dementia-developed-shimane-school-think-tank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T19:09:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ai-a-20171121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shimane University President Yasunao Hattori (second from right) discusses a project to develop a dementia diagnosis system that uses artificial intelligence, at a news conference in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/business/corporate-business/existing-plants-maxed-nissan-anticipates-need-new-u-s-factory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T19:32:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/business/corporate-business/electronics-parts-maker-murata-manufacturing-expands-india-operations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T19:33:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/business/financial-markets/volatility-returns-tokyo-markets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T19:33:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-stocks-a-20171121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese stocks have become volatile after being calm for months.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/zimbabwes-mugabe-drafted-resignation-letter-cnn-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T19:47:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (right) shakes hands with army Gen. Constantino Chiwenga before delivering his speech during a live broadcast at State House in Harare on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/19/national/history/documents-show-u-s-mulled-requesting-deployment-nuclear-weapons-japan-1960s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T20:08:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to Japan Armin Meyer and Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi meet at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on June 25, 1969.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/national/36-toilets-public-high-schools-western-style-lawmaker-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T20:08:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-toilets-a-20171121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than 60 percent of toilets in prefectural high schools are the squat variety.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/national/politics-diplomacy/lawmakers-try-fail-draw-abe-policy-details/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T20:11:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuichiro Tamaki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/national/crime-legal/takahiro-shiraishi-alleged-zama-serial-killer-receives-first-murder-warrant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T20:11:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-zama-a-20171121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flowers adorn a street Monday in front of the apartment building in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, where alleged serial killer Takahiro Shiraishi has admitted to murdering nine people and dismembering their bodies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/national/crime-legal/fatal-okinawa-accident-u-s-service-members-restricted-base-banned-drinking-alcohol/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T20:31:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo shows a wrecked minitruck at a police station in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sunday. U.S. military officials said that, effective Monday, service members in Okinawa and elsewhere in Japan are banned from consuming alcohol following the arrest of a U.S. Marine, He is being held on suspicion of driving while drunk and causing an accident that killed the 61-year-old driver of the minitruck.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/twenty-chinese-uighurs-use-blankets-escape-thai-cell/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-20T23:04:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/national/north-korea-threatens-make-japan-u-s-bases-disappear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-21T04:17:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People in a Seoul railway station watch a news report Sept. 16 about a North Korean missile launch.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/asia-pacific/seoul-frets-missile-tests-pyongyang-year-threat-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-21T07:09:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean guard post (center) in the border county of Kaepoong is seen from a South Korean observation post in Paju near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas on Nov. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/u-n-rights-panel-says-north-korean-women-suffer-discrimination-rape-malnutrition-lack-legal-recourse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-21T07:12:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eyeglass shop manager Song Song-Hui sings for her family members in her apartment in Pyongyang on Nov. 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/national/japan-begins-embrace-baby-sitting-day-care-services-elude/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-21T13:06:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A girl plays with her baby sitter at a home in Tokyo's Minato Ward. Working mothers are increasingly depending on baby sitters to deal with a shortage of day care services.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/asia-pacific/china-pledges-open-providing-information-china-daily/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-21T13:59:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/asia-pacific/u-s-navy-introduces-accident-prevention-measures-fatal-crashes-asia-pacific/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-21T15:07:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain is seen after an August collision in waters off Singapore.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/national/princess-mako-kei-komuros-official-engagement-set-march/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-21T15:36:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Mako and Kei Komuro will be formally engaged in a traditional court ceremony on March 4, according to an Imperial Household Agency source.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/business/corporate-business/toyota-u-s-workers-made-japan-camrys-profitable/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-21T15:39:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toyota-a-20171122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota is using a more flexible production system in its Tsutsumi plant in Aichi Prefecture than in its U.S. facilities.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/business/japans-department-stores-revamping-displays-attract-kids-working-parents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-21T16:18:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kids-a-20171122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Items for babies and children are arranged by use and age rather than brand in the Takashimaya department store in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/world/offbeat-world/diplocat-takes-office-jordan-british-embassys-newly-appointed-chief-mouser/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-21T16:29:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Laura Dauban, deputy ambassador of the United Kingdom to Jordan, poses with Lawrence of Abdoun, the first "diplocat" to be appointed by the embassy in Amman, on Nov. 15.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/business/tech/volvo-looks-supply-uber-24000-self-driving-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-21T16:47:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-vuber-a-20171122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uber's Volvo XC90 self-driving car is shown during a demonstration of self-driving automotive technology in Pittsburgh in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/national/australia-hands-japanese-company-documents-seized-world-war-ii/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-21T17:46:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-21T17:54:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-21T18:27:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp.'s T-HR3 is controlled from a Master Maneuvering System that allows the entire body of the robot to be operated through wearable controls.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/national/politics-diplomacy/north-koreas-terror-relisting-seen-symbolic-step-limited-impact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-21T20:35:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An anti-North Korea protester holds up a portrait of the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, during a rally welcoming U.S. President Donald Trump near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Nov. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/national/history/known-war-memoirs-emperor-hirohito-go-auction-new-york/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-21T20:35:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The two-volume document known in Japan as "Showa Tenno Dokuhakuroku"("Emperor Showa's Monologue").]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/business/japan-ranks-dead-last-asia-top-foreign-talent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-21T20:36:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan ranks last among 11 Asian nations and 51st among 63 nations worldwide in appeal to highly skilled foreign workers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/national/unhcr-chief-praises-japans-willingness-address-serious-refugee-crisis-since-90s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-21T21:03:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi attends a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-21T23:42:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends the 13th Asia Europe Foreign Ministers Meeting in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/national/nagasaki-mayor-attend-nobel-peace-prize-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T00:15:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomihisa Taue]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/national/crime-legal/sumo-champion-harumafuji-referred-prosecutors-alleged-assault-drunken-brawl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T00:16:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Harumafuji]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/national/move-hawaii-okinawa-track-surpass-aloha-state-visitor-numbers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T00:16:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okinawa-a-20171122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of visitors to Okinawa is surging, at a pace that could see the southern tropical islands soon overtake Hawaii as a tourism destination.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/business/corporate-business/toshiba-share-sale-opens-door-david-einhorn-daniel-loeb-activists-angling-shakeup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T07:37:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-22T07:58:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman with the word "Legalize" painted across her mouth marches against a recent congressional committee vote to make abortion illegal without exception nationwide, in Rio de Janeiro Nov. 13. Abortion is currently allowed in cases of rape, a pregnancy that threatens a woman's life or a fetus with anencephaly, but the committee adopted a measure that would remove those exceptions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/world/crime-legal-world/german-police-present-john-lennon-diaries-glasses-stolen-n-y-announce-arrest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T08:11:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lennon-a-20171123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[German police present stolen diaries and other items belonging to former Beatle John Lennon that were recovered, during a news conference in Berlin Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/national/social-issues/retail-giant-aeon-stop-selling-pornographic-magazines-7000-outlets-january/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T11:17:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-aeon-a-20171123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aeon-a-20171123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Major retail chain Aeon Co. and Ministop Co., a convenience store chain of the Aeon group, will stop selling pornographic magazines at their outlets.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/national/crime-legal/osaka-woman-arrested-confessing-dumping-bodies-four-babies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T11:56:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-osakawoman-b-20171122.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the media gather in front of an apartment building late Monday in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, where the bodies of four newborns were found in buckets filled with cement.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/national/social-issues/japan-looks-take-addiction-ahead-legalized-casino-gambling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T13:21:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gambling-a-20171123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey found that 700,000 Japanese adults were estimated to have suffered from gambling addiction in the past year, while about 3.2 million were estimated to have suffered from it at some point in their lives.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/national/social-issues/shimane-program-taps-seasoned-doctors-train-fresh-medical-school-graduates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T13:30:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-doctors-a-20171123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-doctors-a-20171123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takao Inoue, a veteran orthopedics doctor in Masuda, Shimane Prefecture, teaches young doctors how to apply a plaster cast to a patient during a workshop in September.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/national/social-issues/survey-ranks-japanese-kids-group-problem-solving-skills-world-no-2-behing-singapore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T13:52:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-oecd-a-20171123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-oecd-a-20171123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese students ranked second in collaborative problem solving in a global academic achievement survey for 2015, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/business/founder-south-koreas-top-love-hotel-app-aims-make-business-family-friendly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T14:04:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yanolja CEO Lee Su-jin poses in a mock-up motel room at the company's headquarters in Seoul on Oct. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-22T14:04:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks with the media as she arrives for an EU summit in Brussels in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/business/fukuoka-railway-firm-develop-condo-complexes-indonesia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T14:08:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/business/westinghouse-discussing-group-bid-saudi-nuclear-tender-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T15:39:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/asia-pacific/air-china-indefinitely-suspends-flights-beijing-pyongyang/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T16:22:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Air China planes are parked at Beijing Capital International Airport in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-wants-plos-washington-office-stay-open-state-department-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T16:29:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/world/science-health-world/russia-finds-1000-times-normal-level-radioactive-isotope-nuclear-incident-claims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T16:32:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-probes-former-internet-czar-suspected-graft/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T16:36:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-chinagraft-a-20171123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinagraft-a-20171123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping (center) talks with Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg as Lu Wei, China's internet czar, looks on during a gathering of CEOs and other executives at Microsoft's main campus in Redmond, Washington, in September 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-22T17:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson participates in the first meeting of the U.S. National Space Council at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/business/corporate-business/subaru-introduce-electric-vehicles-japan-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T17:12:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-subaru-a-20171123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Subaru Corp. will introduce a series of all-electric cars in Japan as early as 2021, according to sources.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/world/businesses-warned-security-flaw-common-intel-chips/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T17:32:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/national/princess-makos-wedding-ceremony-planned-nov-4-2018-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T17:37:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-wedding-a-20171123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Mako and Kei Komuro speak with reporters in Tokyo's Akasaka district on Sept. 3. The Imperial Household Agency has announced that they will be married on Nov. 4 next year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/business/corporate-business/cash-strapped-toshiba-bids-farewell-times-square-sazae-san/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T18:03:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-timessquare-a-20171123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. advertisements in Times Square in New York will be pulled as part of cost-cutting efforts by the embattled electronics conglomerate.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/inside-kim-jong-uns-inner-circle-top-aides-fates-shift/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T18:09:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkanalysis-a-20171123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hwang Pyong So]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/asia-pacific/dramatic-video-shows-escape-shooting-north-korean-defector/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T18:16:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkdefector-b-20171123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[United Nations Command spokesman Col. Chad G. Carroll shows surveillance TV footage of North Korean soldier lying wounded on the South Korean side of the border during a Wednesday news briefing at the Defense Ministry in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/national/bright-flash-night-sky-japan-lights-police-hotlines-internet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T18:29:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fireball descends and disappears in a flash at around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday in images recorded from Namegawa, Saitama Prefecture. The red glow and lights beneath it are car tail lights.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-22T18:39:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe clenches his fists as he delivers a speech at his party's 13th annual conference, in Gweru, about 250 km southwest of Harare, in December 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/national/crime-legal/police-send-alleged-serial-murder-case-prosecutors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T21:16:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-zama-a-20171123.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takahiro Shiraishi]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-22T21:16:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A report by the Board of Audit shows estimated costs for the removal of industrial waste from a land plot in Osaka that was sold to Moritomo Gakuen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/national/government-meet-dec-1-discuss-emperors-abdication-date/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T21:16:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/national/crime-legal/rurouni-kenshin-cartoonist-referred-prosecutors-possession-child-porn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T21:17:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/asia-pacific/china-seen-reaching-peak-carbon-emissions-2030-survey-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T22:40:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-22T22:45:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/national/science-health/japanese-scientists-find-new-drug-combo-may-key-treating-alzheimers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-22T23:14:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bright white spots show amyloid beta proteins, a substance believed to cause Alzheimer's, in an image of a neuron from a patient with an inherited type of Alzheimer's (left) and another from a patient with a noninherited type. The images are from a paper published by a group of researchers at Kyoto University in the journal Cell Stem Cell in February 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/23/world/social-issues-world/winter-exposure-threat-looms-asylum-seekers-stranded-primitive-crowded-camps-greek-isles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-23T08:12:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A migrant stands between tents at the Moria refugee detention center on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos in March. Authorities on Lesbos have called for residents to strike during anti-government protests to press for a change in the European Union policy of containment of refugees and migrants on the Greece's islands that have turned Lesbos into an "island prison," according to island authorities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/23/world/social-issues-world/famine-forcing-besieged-syrians-eat-trash-go-days-without-food-wfp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-23T09:06:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-23T10:43:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-23T14:18:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mobile home damaged by Hurricane Irma is seen at the Riviera Colony neighborhood in Naples, Florida, on Oct. 30. A donors' conference held in New York on Tuesday pledged over $2 billion in aid to help Caribbean nations to the south of Florida recover from hurricanes that have recently hit the region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/business/corporate-business/japan-post-bank-invest-%c2%a5500-billion-foreign-funds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-23T15:23:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese postal mark is displayed atop Shinjuku Post Office, operated by Japan Post Holdings Co., in Tokyo on Sept. 11. ﷯Japan Post Bank Co. will invest up to ¥500 billion﷯ in several foreign funds, according to the holding company's president.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/business/corporate-business/nippon-paint-derails-akzo-bid-axalta-surprise-counter-offer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-23T16:04:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-24T01:55:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, in January 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/23/asia-pacific/china-wants-closer-ties-myanmar-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T01:56:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya refugees walk along the Naf River after crossing from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Whaikhyang on Oct. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/23/national/science-health/japans-government-urge-preventive-action-local-authorities-accidents-linked-flu-drugs-fevers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T02:04:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-flu-a-20171124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[At least 54 cases of abnormal behavior involving people who had taken influenza medicine were reported last season in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/23/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-subsidiaries-found-falsified-data-products-supplied-aerospace-automotive-power-customers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T02:08:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Materials Corp. said Thursday that three of its subsidiaries have falsified specification data for their products. The headquarters of Mitsubishi Materials Corp. are located within the Keidanren Kaikan Building in Tokyo, seen in this file photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-24T02:17:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Natsuo Yamaguchi (left) who is head of Komeito, the junior partner in Japan’s ruling coalition, greets South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Seoul on Thursday. Moon told Yamaguchi he hopes to visit Japan soon.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/23/business/financial-markets/dollar-licks-wounds-biggest-drop-since-june/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T02:19:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/23/business/corporate-business/ubers-messy-data-breach-collides-launch-softbank-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T02:20:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Uber sign is seen in a car in New York in June 2015. Uber is trying to complete a deal with SoftBank Group Corp. in which the Japanese firm would invest as much as $10 billion for at least 14 percent of the company.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-24T02:27:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani are seen in Sochi on Wednesday while attending a trilateral meeting on Syria.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/23/world/social-issues-world/saudi-led-coalition-vows-ease-crippling-yemen-blockade-allow-aid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T02:27:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A malnourished Yemeni child receives treatment at a hospital in the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah Tuesday. The United Nations has warned that war-wracked Yemen faces a mass famine unless aid deliveries are allowed to enter the impoverished country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/russias-putin-hosts-syrias-assad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T02:27:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin (center), Syrian leader Bashar Assad (left) and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu examine a document during their meeting in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/putin-plan-rejuvenate-russian-politics-makes-slow-progress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T02:27:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin hold a Russian flag featuring his face on March 5, 2012, as they celebrate his election victory in Manezhnaya Square, just outside the Kremlin. Critics of Putin say Russia has stagnated since he became president again.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/23/world/social-issues-world/france-goes-war-prime-ministers-order-not-use-gender-neutral-language/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T02:28:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe leaves the Elysee Palace in Paris after the weekly Cabinet meeting Wednesday. In a memo to ministers the day before, he banned gender-inclusive writing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/23/asia-pacific/north-korea-calls-u-s-terror-relisting-serious-provocation-vows-continue-building-treasured-nuclear-sword/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T02:30:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets scientists and technicians in the field of nuclear weapons research in this undated photo released in March 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/23/world/nuclear-strategists-call-bold-move-scrap-icbm-arsenal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T02:30:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile takes off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California during an operational test on Aug. 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/23/business/corporate-business/kddi-buy-english-school-operator-aeon-corp-january/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T03:48:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-24T07:13:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A statue of young girls, erected as a memorial to so-called comfort women, is seen Wednesday in San Francisco.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/24/world/social-issues-world/service-africa-pope-decries-murder-women-children-horrid-face-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T07:18:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis leads a special Mass for peace in South Sudan and Republic of Congo in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/24/world/cleared-population-centers-iraq-begins-campaign-purify-desert-near-syria-islamic-state-fighters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T09:57:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fighters stand behind an earthen embankment near military vehicles in the Iraqi desert near the Syrian borderin this still image taken from a video obtained by Reuters on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/24/business/eu-privacy-regulators-discuss-uber-hack-coverup-next-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T10:02:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/b-uber-a-20171125.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-uber-a-20171125.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Uber logo is seen in Paris last December. Uber said Wednesday that hackers compromised personal data from some 57 million riders and drivers in a breach kept hidden for a year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/24/asia-pacific/seoul-surgeon-wounded-north-korean-defector-nice-guy-nightmares-repatriation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T10:50:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-defector-a-20171125.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-defector-a-20171125.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This screengrab made from video footage released by the United Nations Command on Wednesday shows a North Korea defector lying on the ground after getting shot at by North Korean soldiers in the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/24/world/social-issues-world/libyas-u-n-backed-regime-investigating-african-migrant-slave-market-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T10:51:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-libya-a-20171125.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-libya-a-20171125.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters, some from sub-Saharan African nations, shout slogans during a demonstraion against "Slavery in Libya" on Thursday outside the Libyan Embassy in the Moroccan capital of Rabat.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/national/social-issues/imf-blog-urges-japan-make-use-women-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T12:45:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-imf-a-20171123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-imf-a-20171123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Japan Airlines Co. employees pose for a photograph after an initiation ceremony at a hangar near Haneda Airport in Tokyo in April. An International Monetary Fund blog says a shift in Japan's labor policy would encourage women to take on more full-time work and also have children.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/24/world/science-health-world/preliminary-tests-show-avatars-can-help-schizophrenia-patients-control-threatening-voices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T12:56:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Guerrillas of the New People's Army, the Maoist armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, stand in formation in the Sierra Madre mountain range east of Manila on July 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-24T13:52:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers inspect the offerings at Tsukiji Fishroom in Newark Airport's Terminal C.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-24T14:56:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 38,000 Japanese nationals reside in South Korea, mainly in and around the capital.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/23/business/corporate-business/fast-retailing-co-applies-open-uniqlo-stores-india-amid-worldwide-expansion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T16:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-24T16:51:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-24T17:02:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-24T17:10:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mystery ministry: Now that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has dissolved the diet, Toshimitsu Motegi (right), who was announced as the economic revitalization minister and minister for human resources development at the Cabinet reshuffle in August, may never begin his mission of a "human development revolution."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-24T17:54:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bought and sold: "Ko" spent three years as an urisen (rent boy) in Shinjuku's Ni-chome district. "The place I worked at employed about 100 urisen, 10 of whom, including me, were gay, the rest nonke (straight)," he says.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-24T19:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees play "Star Wars: Battlefront II," made by Electronic Arts, during June's E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-24T19:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean soldiers dig a trench and plant trees on Wednesday in the area where a defector ran across the inter-Korean border at the Demilitarized Zone on Nov. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-24T19:08:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-24T19:38:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya refugee Dus Mohammed, 17, carries some of his families belongings on Thursday after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border at Shah Porir Dwip near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-24T20:37:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/24/national/crime-legal/prosecutors-seek-life-sentence-former-u-s-base-worker-murder-okinawa-woman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T20:37:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenneth Franklin Shinzato]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/24/business/government-will-take-steps-help-farmers-japan-eu-free-trade-accord-implemented/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T20:38:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses ministers at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mugabe-granted-immunity-assured-safety-zimbabwe-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T21:19:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zimbabwe soliders drill on Thursday to prepare for the inauguration of Emerson Mnangagwa as president in Harare's national stadium.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/24/business/corporate-business/kao-opens-new-taiwan-facility-produce-beauty-products-tap-regional-demand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T22:29:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/24/world/mnangagwa-crocodile-sworn-zimbabwes-new-president/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T22:30:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emmerson Mnangagwa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's new president during the inauguration ceremony in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/24/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korea-passes-bill-declaring-comfort-women-day-japan-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-24T23:06:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-comfortwomen-a-20171125.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-comfortwomen-a-20171125.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People move in for a closer look at a "Comfort Women" monument after its unveiling in San Francisco on Sept. 22. On Friday, the South Korean parliament passed a bill to officially designate Aug. 14 as the day to commemorate the Korean women who were forced into wartime brothels for the Japanese military.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/24/business/tech/chinese-theme-park-looks-to-cash-in-on-virtual-reality-boom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T10:56:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction workers carry a light pole in front of a giant robot statue at the Oriental Science Fiction Valley theme park in Guiyang, Guizhou province, China, Nov.16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/24/national/japan-lowriders-get-a-little-higher/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T13:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bling is the thing at the Lowrider Super Show, the biggest event of the year for Japan's lowrider community.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/25/asia-pacific/raul-castro-meets-north-korea-minister-amid-hope-cuba-can-defuse-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T13:20:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/24/national/newsweek-causes-stir-by-reporting-japan-wants-war-with-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T13:37:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-newsweek-a-20171125.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A still image from a TV Asahi program aired Friday morning shows commentators discussing a Newsweek report on Japanese people's views on North Korea that has been criticized as misleading.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/25/world/pentagon-likely-increase-official-count-u-s-troops-syria-500-2000/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T13:55:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-syrtroops-a-20171126.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jim Mattis]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/24/national/boat-washes-ashore-akita-eight-aboard-claiming-north-korean-fishermen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T13:56:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wooden boat that washed ashore in Akita Prefecture is seen Friday moored at a marina in the city of Yurihonjo. Police said eight men found in the boat claim they are from North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/25/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/xi-discusses-rohingya-crisis-visiting-myanmar-army-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T14:33:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/merkel-stabilizes-grip-germany-wounded-enemies-pile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T14:47:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for an EU summit with six Eastern European partner countries at the European Council in Brussels on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/showdown-looms-two-officials-tapped-for-vacant-post-u-s-consumer-agency-head/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T14:49:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. budget director Mick Mulvaney speaks during a daily news briefing at the White House in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/25/asia-pacific/border-without-doctors-defector-drama-highlights-south-koreas-inadequate-trauma-care/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T15:32:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/25/asia-pacific/offbeat-asia-pacific/chinese-barber-deftly-wields-straight-razor-give-customers-eyelid-shaves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T15:34:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer looks on as Xiong Gaowu, a 62-year old street barber, cleans his eye using the straight razor in Chengdu, in southwest China's Sichuan province, on Nov. 18.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/25/national/media-national/popularity-psychopath-mind-puzzle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T22:46:18+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/25/national/media-national/crappiest-apartments-2017-hashtag-bemuses-twitter-users/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T23:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo's sizeable population sometimes forces property developers to take extreme measures to squeeze in an extra tenant or two.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/25/business/corporate-business/tech-arrogance-behind-scandals-manufacturing-professor-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T20:46:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Materials Corp. executives bow in apology at a Tokyo news conference Friday to offer explanations about the company's product data falsification scandal,.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/25/business/corporate-business/uber-disclose-price-softbank-deal-early-next-week-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T20:47:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Uber logo is seen on a screen in Singapore in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/25/national/politics-diplomacy/russia-takes-tokyo-task-defense-alliance-washington/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T20:47:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono and Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov arrive for a news conference after holding talks in Moscow Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/25/national/crime-legal/crushed-teens-kin-settle-civil-suit-schindler-elevator/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-25T23:11:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Part of an elevator brake, the same type used in the Schindler Elevator unit that led to a fatal accident in Tokyo in 2006, is seen during a verification test by the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan in August 2016.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Business lobbies in western Japan want the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line to be extended to Osaka by 2030.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ing office chair, made by Kokuyo Co., has a shifting seat that moves in all directions so people must constantly exert themselves to keep their bodies in balance. The manufacturer says the ing chair allows workers to engage in some form of exercise while sitting.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some companies are buying back their own shares, as part of a strategy to make them less of a target in a more demanding investment environment.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects the Yangluo container port in Wuhan, Hubei province, in July 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-28T10:43:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, speaks to reporters following a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-28T11:02:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mick Mulvaney leaves the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/28/national/science-health/bee-research-may-redefine-understanding-intelligence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-28T11:12:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honeybees have the ability to tell other bees in the hive where flowers bearing nectar and pollen are located.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-28T11:16:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiromu Nonaka]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-28T12:49:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrating cranes fly over the Hula Nature Park in northern Israel Nov. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/28/national/iconic-london-double-decker-bus-finds-new-life-nagasaki-cafe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-28T14:01:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Sakana shows off his signature dish in front of his cafe in Hasami, Nagasaki Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/28/business/fuel-cell-bet-finds-toyota-odd-carmaker-electric-vehicles-surge-along-charging-infrastructure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-28T14:54:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-28T15:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children attend the wake of Rolando Arellano Campo and Sherwin Bitas two days after they were killed in a police operation captured on CCTV, in Tondo, Manila on Oct. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-28T15:31:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-28T16:17:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zhang Yang]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-28T16:56:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un provides guidance with Ri Hong Sop (second from left) and Hong Sung Mu (right) on the country's nuclear weapons program in this undated photo released on Sept. 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/28/business/corporate-business/softbank-reportedly-offering-buy-uber-shares-steep-discount/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-28T17:14:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. and a group of investors are reportedly trying to buy a big stake in Uber Technologies Inc. at a steep discount.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/28/business/corporate-business/denso-exec-koji-kobayashi-join-toyotas-expanded-leadership/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-28T17:26:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/27/business/japanese-livestock-farmers-using-feed-rice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-28T17:26:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer checks harvested rice grain in Katori, Chiba Prefecture. While people have been eating less rice in Japan, the use of feed rice is on the rise.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/28/business/corporate-business/japans-hino-develop-lower-emissions-engine-indian-partner/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-28T18:08:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/27/business/bank-japan-returned-black-april-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-28T18:37:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past the Bank of Japan in Tokyo. The central bank will soon report a net income of over ¥500 billion for April-September, in a turnaround from a net loss a year earlier.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/28/national/fukuis-push-reactor-restarts-reflects-local-economys-reliance-nuclear-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-28T18:56:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa's approval of restarting two reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant in the prefecture shows the local economy's dependence on nuclear power.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/28/national/crime-legal/sumo-advisory-council-recommends-extremely-harsh-punishment-harumafuji/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-28T20:33:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Life-size replicas of sumo grand champions Harumafuji (left) and Hakuho stand outside the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/28/national/hello-kitty-pikachu-recruited-back-osakas-bid-host-2025-world-expo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-28T22:53:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hello Kitty balloon appears in this year's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York on Nov. 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/28/business/economy-business/oecd-keeps-2018-forecast-track-seeing-modest-synchronized-economic-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-28T23:23:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-oecd-a-20171129.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's outlook, Japan's economic growth will likely slow to 1.0 percent in 2019 after a projected expansion to 1.2 percent in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/28/national/michelin-dishes-new-stars-2018-tokyo-guide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T00:37:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nihon Michelin Tire Co. CEO Paul Perriniaux poses with a corporate mascot Tuesday in Tokyo during a news conference to launch the Michelin Guide Tokyo 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/28/national/radio-signals-suggest-pyongyang-possibly-preparing-missile-launch-no-satellite-confirmation-yet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T08:40:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-missile-a-20171129.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Sept. 16 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspecting a launching drill of the medium-and-long range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 at an undisclosed location.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/business/u-s-supreme-court-wary-widening-corporate-whistle-blower-protections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T08:42:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-whistle-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Supreme Court is seen in Washington in June. The Supreme Court seems reluctant to take a broad view of whistle-blower protections passed by Congress after the 2008 financial crisis. The question the justices are wrestling with involves the Dodd-Frank Act. Part of the law protects people who report legal violations to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from being fired, demoted or harassed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/world/huge-iceberg-breaks-free-glacier-southern-chile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T08:47:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-berg-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A handout picture released by Chile's National Forest Corporation (CONAF) shows the Grey Glacier detachment in the Torres del Paine National Park in Punta Arenas, Chile, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/28/national/social-issues/dying-home-increasingly-option-japan-want-go-afterlife-quietly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T08:48:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dying-a-20171129.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuu Yasui, doctor and founder of the Yamato Clinic, examines lung cancer patient Yasuhiro Sato in his Tokyo apartment July 11. Sato lived a solitary life except for caregivers’ visits.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/world/social-issues-world/trudeau-apologizes-canadas-collective-shame-persecution-gay-public-servants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T10:58:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-canada-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wipes away tears while delivering an apology to members of the LGBT community who were discriminated against by federal legislation and policies, in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/world/science-health-world/russia-loses-contact-weather-satellite-launch-new-spaceport-orbit-believed-failed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T11:07:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-russat-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Souyz-2 spacecraft with Meteor-M satellite and 18 additional small satellites launches from Russia's new Vostochny cosmodrome, near the town of Tsiolkovsky in the Amur region of Russia Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/world/dancer-confirms-colleague-putins-younger-daughter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T14:04:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-putin-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katerina Tikhonova, daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, dances with Ivan Klimov during the World Cup Rock'n'Roll Acrobatic Competition in Krakow, Poland, in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/28/business/corporate-business/toray-latest-slew-japanese-firms-admit-falsifying-data/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T14:30:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toray-a-20171129.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toray Industries Inc. President Akihiro Nikkaku (forefront) apologizes over a data falsification scandal by one of its subsidiaries during a news conference Tuesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/business/corporate-business/japans-edoya-make-halal-salmon-skin-chips-malaysia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T16:48:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/business/economy-business/japans-economy-maintains-moderate-recovery-sixth-month-government-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T17:18:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/b-economy-a-20171130.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-economy-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buoyed by pickups in private consumption, Japan's economy continues to recover moderately, according to the latest government data.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/world/science-health-world/nasa-plans-new-rover-mars-2020-mission/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T17:22:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Engineers work on a model of the Mars rover Curiosity at the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in August 2012.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/national/social-issues/children-parents-mental-illnesses-launch-support-group-setting-sights-events-across-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T17:23:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mentalillness-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kodomo Pia, a group offering support for children of mentally ill parents, will be officially launched in January. The group includes deputy leader Ayuna Kobayashi (front left), leader Taku Sakamoto (front right), founder Keiko Yokoyama (back left) and Masako Kageyama.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/business/financial-markets/bitcoin-tops-10000-first-time-bubble-warnings-multiply/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T17:31:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bitcoin-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bitcoin has moved beyond $10,000 for the first time, bringing this year's price surge to more than 10-fold even as warnings grow that the digital currency is an asset bubble.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/world/social-issues-world/u-n-panel-seeks-rare-report-myanmar-regime-rapes-slayings-rohingya-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T18:54:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rohingya-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya Muslim refugees react as police and officials attempt to control a surging crowd as they wait to be called to recieve food aid of rice, water, and cooking oil in a relief center at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar on Tuesday. Rohingya are still fleeing into Bangladesh even after an agreement was signed with Myanmar to repatriate hundreds of thousands of the Muslim minority displaced along the border, officials said on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-balks-free-education-election-promise-drops-wording-proposed-constitutional-amendment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T18:57:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-constitution-a-20171130.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-constitution-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroyuki Hosoda (right), a veteran Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker who heads the party's panel promoting constitutional reform, speaks in Tokyo on Nov. 16. The body approved a plan Tuesday that does not include wording that guarantees free education for all.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/business/corporate-business/subaru-seen-climbing-past-hyundai-u-s-bigger-ascent-suv/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T19:02:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-subaru-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Subaru's Ascent sport utility vehicle concept sits on display after being unveiled during the 2017 New York International Auto Show in April. The carmaker is debuting the model at this week's Los Angeles Auto Show amid a growth spurt that's been the envy of the auto industry.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/business/corporate-business/birkenstock-looks-step-japan-sales-mix-tradition-bold-new-ideas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T19:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/b-birkenstock-a-20171130.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-birkenstock-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oliver Reichert, CEO of German shoemaker Birkenstock, speaks during a recent interview in Tokyo. Reichert is the first leader from outside the family to run the centuries-old company, which is known for its ecologically-friendly and orthopedic sandals.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/national/social-issues/kumamoto-assembly-woman-slapped-with-official-warning-bringing-baby-to-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T19:58:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuka Ogata, a Kumamoto city lawmaker, is seen bringing her 7-month-old baby son to assembly meeting last week.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/reference/flawed-nissan-subaru-vehicle-inspections-seen-issue-compliance-rather-quality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T20:38:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-fyi-a-20171121.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20171121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[It is still unclear how flawed vehicle inspections will affect the carmakers' sales in the near future.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/national/crime-legal/japans-supreme-court-broadens-definition-of-indecent-assault/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T21:09:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-indecency-a-20171130.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-indecency-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The defense team of a man accused of indecent assault speak at a news conference Wednesday in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/national/science-health/japanese-firm-uses-vr-simulations-offer-glimpse-world-dementia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T21:56:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-dementia-a-20171130.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dementia-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of the virtual reality simulations created by Tokyo-based apartment operator Silver Wood Corp. allows viewers to experience what it is like for someone with dementia to travel by train.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/asia-pacific/north-korea-fires-off-apparent-long-range-missile-challenge-trump-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T23:21:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-missile-b-20171130.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-missile-b-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Tokyo pedestrian passes a Wednesday morning news broadcast of North Korea's first missile launch since Sept. 15.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/national/north-koreas-latest-missile-launch-olive-branch-disguise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-29T23:22:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-nkanalysis-a-20171130.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkanalysis-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians at a railway station in Seoul on Wednesday watch a television news program showing pictures of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/30/world/science-health-world/rising-seas-will-swallow-14000-u-s-historic-sites-2100-study-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-30T06:58:35+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/democratic-rep-luis-gutierrez-hints-2020-u-s-presidential-run-plans-nationwide-tour/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-30T11:23:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) waves after speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/30/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/hong-kong-marchers-slam-eviction-beijings-low-end-population-razing-dwellings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-30T11:35:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-beijing-a-20171201.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-beijing-a-20171201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters in Hong Kong hold banners during a demonstration Wednesday against evictions of the poor in Beijing. Authorities in Beijing launched sweeping evictions of workers who have migrated from elsewhere in the country, triggering a public outcry over the treatment of people the city depends on to build skyscrapers, care for children and take on other lowly paid work. The banners held by the protesters read: "Grassroots workers residency rights, evictions of workers, end of all evil."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/30/business/tech/apple-audit-development-processes-bug-found-mac-os-opens-door-hackers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-30T11:37:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/national/tokyo-train-departs-visually-impaired-mans-guide-cane-caught-doors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-30T13:51:27+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/national/university-of-melbourne-marks-100-years-of-teaching-japanese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-30T15:06:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-australia-a-20171130.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-australia-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students attend a Japanese language class at the University of Melbourne on Oct. 3. Since it was first offered, Japanese has been the most popular language taught at the university, with a record 1,634 students currently enrolled.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/30/asia-pacific/stranded-tourists-depart-bali-volcanic-ash-cloud-shifts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-30T16:19:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-agung-a-20171201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mount Agung erupts Thursday morning, as seen from Amed on Bali.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/30/asia-pacific/u-s-demands-china-cut-oil-north-korea-missile-launch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-30T16:37:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkoil-a-20171201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley shakes hands with South Korean Ambassador Cho Tae-yul after a Security Council meeting on the situation in North Korea on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/national/japans-nuclear-regulation-authority-require-new-cooling-system-boiling-water-reactors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-30T16:39:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-nuke-a-20171130.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nuke-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan'﷯s nuclear watchdog finalized a decision to require operators of boiling water reactors —﷯ the same type as those at the crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1﷯ nuclear complex, seen here on Sept. 4 —﷯ to install new emergency cooling systems.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/30/business/corporate-business/toray-president-admits-learning-subsidiarys-product-data-manipulation-16-months-ago/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-30T16:57:10+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/29/national/social-issues/health-ministry-proposes-public-insurance-coverage-sex-reassignment-surgery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-30T17:04:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gid-a-20171130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A transgender person speaks before Diet lawmakers in Tokyo in March about the experience of being discriminated against.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/30/national/crime-legal/court-says-provision-allows-men-right-file-lawsuits-denying-legal-fatherhood-constitutional/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-30T18:36:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A plaintiff speaks during a news conference Wednesday after her claim against the state over the right to file a lawsuit concerning legal fatherhood of a child was dismissed.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-30T19:29:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-30T21:10:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of the Kuala Lumpur branches of Japanese department store Isetan is housed in a commercial complex near iconic Petronas Twin Towers in the city center.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The planned restarts of reactors 3 and 4 at the Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture are expected to be delayed to inspect parts supplied by Kobe Steel, which has admitted to falsifying product data.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The collapsed ceiling in Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway can be seen on a Central Nippon Expressway Co. monitor in December 2012.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Top executives at Uber Technologies Inc. used the encrypted chat app Wickr to hold secret conversations, current and former workers have testified in court.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oriental Land Co., operator of Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, is planning to spend roughly ¥300 billion to expand the two theme parks with the aim of attracting older people and visitors from abroad to boost ticket sales that have stagnated amid Japan's falling birthrate.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-30T21:46:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kolin Burges, a customer of bitcoin, the digital currency, protests near a building housing the office of Tibanne, a parent company of the Mt.Gox bitcoin exchange, in Tokyo in February 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-30T22:50:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-30T22:54:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Hwasong-15 missile, which North Korea says can reach any part of the U.S., is launched from a site just north of Pyongyang early Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/20/national/100-days-old-ueno-zoos-panda-cub-takes-wobbly-steps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-30T23:03:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A giant panda cub receives a health checkup Wednesday at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/28/national/tokyos-new-panda-cub-get-time-spotlight-starting-next-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-30T23:03:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panda cub Xiang Xiang climbs on a log at Ueno Zoo in Taito Ward, Tokyo, on Nov. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-30T23:03:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Giant Panda Shin Shin holds her female cub, Xiang Xiang, at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo on the cub's 100th day on Sept. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/01/national/panda-cub-xiang-xiang-adding-weight-getting-longer-checkup-110th-day-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-30T23:04:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-panda-a-20171002.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Xiang Xiang, the popular female giant panda cub born at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, has put on 900 grams in 10 days to reach 6.9 kg, a checkup found Saturday — 110 days after her birth.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/18/national/wakayama-zoo-celebrates-baby-panda-yuihins-first-birthday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-11-30T23:04:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Baby panda Yuihin (right) looks at a pink ice cake shaped like a "1" on Monday, her first birthday, together with her mother, Rauhin. The cake was a gift from zoo workers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/30/national/osaka-probes-schools-hair-color-rules-lawsuit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-01T12:26:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to one survey, 93 percent of schools had regulations forbidding students from dyeing or bleaching their hair.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-01T13:43:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takanohana, left, attends a board meeting of the Japan Sumo Association on Thursday at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-01T14:52:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-01T15:39:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-01T15:46:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan House communication center will open this month at the Hollywood &amp; Highland Center complex, seen above, in Los Angeles.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/01/national/japan-business-lobby-agrees-contribute-%c2%a5300-billion-expand-child-care-services/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-01T15:46:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-01T17:36:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-01T17:38:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-01T17:57:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Harumafuji tears up during a news conference Wednesday in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/01/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/volcanic-science-labs-offer-climate-clues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-01T18:20:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Russian tourist poses while a friend takes her photograph in Amed, Bali, on Thursday as Mount Agung erupts.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/01/business/canada-tries-mend-ties-japan-trade-pact-standoff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-01T18:59:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canada, under the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (seen above), is trying to patch up frayed relations with the Japanese government after holding out on signing a major Pacific Rim trade deal championed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T00:18:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the launch of a Hwasong-12 missile in this photo released by North Korea's Korean official Central News Agency on Sept. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T00:20:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches Wednesday's missile launch on a screen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/01/asia-pacific/chinas-investments-iran-surge-coming-western-nations-flounder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-02T00:20:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's CITIC investment arm, whose Beijing headquarters is the central building here, has established a $10 billion credit line with Iran.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/01/business/financial-markets/bitcoin-futures-poised-launch-regulators-rush-catch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-02T00:20:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/01/business/economy-business/investment-japanese-firms-rises-4-2-year-july-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-02T00:21:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A petrochemical plant complex is illuminated at night in Muroran, Hokkaido. Capital spending by Japanese companies rose 4.2 percent from a year ago in the July-September period, according to the government's latest data.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/01/national/crime-legal/former-u-s-base-worker-gets-life-prison-murder-okinawa-woman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-02T00:22:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-shinzato-a-20171202.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenneth Franklin Shinzato]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/01/business/corporate-business/toyota-enters-tie-new-large-scale-fuel-cell-power-plant-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-02T00:22:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Toyota Motor Corp. truck that runs on fuel cells is seen Thursday at the Los Angeles Auto Show.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/01/national/science-health/japan-may-join-u-s-space-project-quest-achieve-manned-moon-landing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-02T00:22:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-space-a-20171202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan may join a U.S.-proposed project to build a new space station to orbit the moon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/01/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-says-chinas-north-korea-diplomacy-appears-no-impact-little-rocket-man/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-02T00:28:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump gestures to Chinese President Xi Jinping during a business leaders event at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T00:29:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House senior adviser Jared Kushner — seated with his wife, White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump, and their children — looks over at U.S. President Donald Trump during the prayer at the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony near the White House on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An explosion rocked Arakawa Chemical Industries Ltd.'s plant in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Friday. About 50 residents were ordered to evacuate until the fire was extinguished.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T12:22:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jim Mattis]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/01/national/emperors-abdication-date-confirmed-april-30-2019/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T12:36:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Models representing the fashion magazine CanCam receive a top buzzword award on Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign travelers flock to the Kaminarimon (Thunder Gate) in Tokyo's Asakusa district in June. Demand for use of private homes in Japan as accommodation for tourists is increasing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Aiko poses for a photograph at Togu Palace in Tokyo in this Nov. 23 photo provided by the Imperial Household Agency. The princess celebrated her 16th birthday on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T12:52:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors browse Nippon Paint's research and development center in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture. The paint-maker has failed to reach an agreement to buy U.S. firm Axalta Coating Systems Ltd.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T13:07:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elementary school students in Fukuoka take part in a missile drill in the city on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T13:18:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Flynn]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T13:56:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ultra-Orthodox Jews look at the city of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives on Friday. The Dome of the Rock mosque is seen on the right.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T16:20:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boxes travel along a conveyor belt at the Sagawa Tokyo Logistics Center, operated by Sagawa Express Co., in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T16:35:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T17:12:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T18:47:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday for the opening ceremony of a three-day meeting of political parties from around the world.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T20:21:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T22:21:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Xiang Xiang, a 6-month-old female panda, is seen climbing a tree at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T22:44:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Telling reporters "we have the votes," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks to the chamber after a closed-door meeting with Republican lawmakers to advance the GOP overhaul of the tax code on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T22:45:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A chain of new gyms to be opened on top of FamilyMart convenience stores is depicted in this digital image.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T22:47:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The individual departure tax would be levied on those departing by plane or ship, with the revenue used to promote tourism.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-02T22:53:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-03T08:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senkaku islets Minamikojima (front), Kitakojima and Uotsuri (back) are shown in the East China Sea in June 2011. China and Taiwan also claim sovereignty over the Japan-administered chain. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-03T10:39:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Extra editions of a newspaper reporting the date of Emperor Akihito's abdication are handed out near Shinbashi Station in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is seen next to a newly developed Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile in this undated photo released Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang is interviewed on Thursday in Ho Chi Minh City.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-03T22:36:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son attends an earnings release at a Tokyo hotel in May.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at a campaign rally Thursday in Dora, Albama.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched during a successful intercept test in this undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Department of Defense,]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-04T15:17:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-cash-a-20171205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yusuke Mitsumoto, founder of Cash, agreed to sell the service to media and technology empire DMM.com in October for ¥7 billion and continue running the business.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-04T15:18:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. F-22 stealth fighter jet takes off from a South Korean Air Force base in Gwangju on Monday, the start the two allies' largest-ever joint aerial drills.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-04T15:26:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A person walks past photographs displayed outside the compound of the North Korean Embassy in Berlin on Friday. The sign reads "Democratic People's Republic of Korea", which is the North's formal name.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-04T16:26:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Raul Estrada, chairman of the third Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP3), shakes hands with Japan's environment chief, Hiroshi Oki, as the Kyoto Protocol is adopted in the ancient capital in December 1997.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A comic book created by Brazilian cartoonist Mauricio de Sousa introduces unique Japanese school culture to Brazilian children who have migrated to Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/04/business/corporate-business/food-company-toho-buys-firms-singapore-malaysia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-04T18:27:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-04T18:40:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lovely Media, an online dating site, says that a growing number of women are reluctant to "waste time" on "dating that leads nowhere."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/04/national/japan-plans-public-private-info-sharing-team-manage-data-natural-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-04T19:37:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-04T19:59:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-04T20:04:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to a shop worker during a visit to VFB The Florist on Small Business Saturday, in Twyford, southeast England, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-04T20:19:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Hokkaido, Japan Coast Guard officials investigate a wooden boat Sunday in Hakodate Bay that was found adrift last week with 10 North Korean men on board.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-04T20:19:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Mako guides Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko through a museum she works for in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/04/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/chinese-think-tank-calls-democratic-internet-governance-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-04T21:13:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-04T21:34:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The defense team for Koki Miyata, who was sent to prison for a 1985 murder, holds up banners Wednesday announcing a new trial after the Fukuoka High Court upheld a lower court decision for a retrial.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-04T23:02:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official hangs a portrait of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa before the swearing-in ceremony of Cabinet ministers at State House in Harare on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/05/business/lamborghini-chases-new-customers-first-suv/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T06:51:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This handout picture released by Italian luxury car maker Lamborghini shows the new SUV 4x4 Urus presented Monday in Bologna.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-05T06:54:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/04/business/homegrown-food-technology-target-global-audience/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T08:45:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 70 percent of exhibitors offer domestically produced items and have been aiming to go global in recent years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/05/world/syria-says-intercepted-3-4-israeli-missiles-fired-military-facility-near-damascus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T09:07:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-05T09:09:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-05T09:30:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-05T11:08:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-05T11:14:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee walks past storage tanks containing contaminated water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/04/national/crime-legal/prosecutors-appeal-high-court-decision-retry-man-1985-murder-kumamoto-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T11:15:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/04/national/yamaguchi-museums-showing-long-missing-sesshu-work-rekindles-interest-treasured-ink-artist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T11:20:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Ho Kakei Sansuizu," a painting by Sesshu that had been missing for 84 years, is on display at the Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-05T14:01:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean soldiers attend a mass rally to celebrate the country's Nov. 29 declaration that it had achieved full nuclear statehood, in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-05T14:24:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 30 percent of cancer patients are said to quit work after being diagnosed.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-05T14:52:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A resolution condemning North Korea's latest missile test is unanimously passed by the Upper House Monday as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (below right) looks on.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-05T15:02:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-05T15:35:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An amphibious bus operated by Fuji Kyuko Co. drives into Tokyo Bay on Nov. 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-05T15:41:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hassyadai Inc. holds a training session for job seekers in Tokyo in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-05T16:18:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taxi drivers take part in a demonstration against what they say is unfair competition from new car-sharing companies such as Uber in San Salvador Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/04/business/government-draws-%c2%a52-trillion-package-education-child-care-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T17:11:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker walks behind British Prime Minister Theresa May prior to addressing a news conference at EU headquarters in Brussels on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/05/business/japan-looking-fuel-productivity-revolution-doubling-labor-output-2/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/05/world/sierra-leone-peace-diamond-nets-6-5-million-auction-raise-funds-west-african-nation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T18:03:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Peace Diamond is displayed at the Rapaport Group in midtown New York on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/05/business/haruhiko-kuroda-says-reappointment-bank-japan-chief-didnt-come-meeting-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T18:04:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda takes questions from reporters Tuesday after meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/03/national/first-official-kono-urges-u-s-commander-prevent-incidents-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T19:43:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono is seen entering the Prime Minister's Office after he was reappointed to his post on Nov. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/05/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/nobel-peace-prize-winners-son-likens-north-korean-icbm-flare-signaling-start-negotiations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T19:44:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Hong-gul, of the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation, poses for a photograph in Seoul on Monday. The youngest son of former President Kim Dae-jung is one of just a handful of South Koreans to have met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/05/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-throws-cold-water-u-s-led-dialogue-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T19:49:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-05T20:44:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.N. General Assembly endorses a Japanese anti-nuclear resolution in New York on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/05/national/crime-legal/chief-firm-behind-worlds-fourth-fastest-supercomputer-arrested-tokyo-alleged-fraud/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T20:45:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo prosecutors raid PEZY Computing in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/05/national/north-korean-crew-admits-stealing-appliances-refuge-hut-islet-off-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T20:45:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean vessel is towed to a Hokkaido port on Thursday. Investigative sources said Tuesday that crewmen admitted to stealing home appliances from a refuge hut.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/05/asia-pacific/myanmar-forces-may-guilty-genocide-rohingya-u-n-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T23:03:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jordan's Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks with a delegate prior to the 27th special session of the Human Rights Council on "the human rights situation of the minority Rohingya Muslim population and other minorities in the Rakhine state of Myanmar" at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/05/business/corporate-business/lawson-open-unattended-late-night-checkout-counter-service/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T23:12:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/world/german-passenger-train-hits-freight-near-duesseldorf-several-injured/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T07:13:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue workers are at the site of train crash in Meerbusch west of Duesseldorf, Germany, Tuesday in this picture obtained from social media.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/world/politics-diplomacy-world/terrorist-plot-kill-british-leader-theresa-may-reportedly-foiled/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T12:10:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May greets Spanish leader Mariano Rajoy before their meeting at No. 10 Downing St. in London on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/05/national/north-korean-soccer-teams-arrive-japan-specially-issued-visas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T12:19:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the North Korean men's national soccer team are greeted by compatriots upon arriving at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Tuesday for the E-1 Football Championship tournament.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/05/national/bus-driver-reversed-half-kilometer-hyogo-prefecture-expressway-last-month-company-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T13:44:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-ditches-u-s-policy-tells-mideast-leaders-plan-move-embassy-jerusalem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T14:13:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A view of Jerusalem's Old City is seen Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/05/business/corporate-business/tokyo-airport-mortuary-service-specializes-repatriating-deceased-japan-overseas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T14:23:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-airhearse-a-20171206.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-airhearse-a-20171206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Airhearse International Inc. President Rie Kimura, who heads a six-person operation that handles the international repatriation of human remains, poses for a photo Oct. 23 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/business/frances-war-waste-makes-food-sustainable-country-followed-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T15:30:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/b-food-a-20171207.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-food-a-20171207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man pulls a trolley at the seafood area of the international food market of Rungis, outside Paris, Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/asia-pacific/u-s-fly-b-1b-bombers-korean-peninsula-show-force/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T16:04:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber takes off from Andersen Air Force Base on Guam on Oct. 31.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/business/tech/japan-airlines-launches-10-million-strategic-partnership-u-s-supersonic-jetliner-startup-boom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T16:20:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist's impression shows Boom's 55-seat supersonic aircraft (below) and Boom's XB-1 supersonic demonstrator in this undated handout obtained Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/asia-pacific/chinese-near-north-korean-border-told-survive-nuclear-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T16:46:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/f-nkchina-a-20171207.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkchina-a-20171207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea's Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile is launched Nov. 29.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/business/corporate-business/nintendo-opens-games-rival-console-first-time-china-nvidia-tie/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T16:51:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/b-nintendo-a-20171207.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travelers walk past a poster of Nintendo Co.'s Mario character at Terminal 1 of Kansai International Airport in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, in July.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/national/nuclear-reactor-operator-submits-30-year-plan-scrap-trouble-prone-monju-facility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T18:13:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-monju-a-20171207.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-monju-a-20171207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Atomic Energy Agency executive director Hajime Ito speaks to reporters Wednesday after submitting to the Nuclear Regulation Authority a 30-year decommissioning plan for the Monju fast-breeder nuclear reactor.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/asia-pacific/pentagon-says-not-looking-moving-military-families-south-korea-amid-rising-tensions-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T18:18:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/f-nkfamilies-a-20171207.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkfamilies-a-20171207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump has lunch with troops on Nov. 7 at the American military's Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/national/shogi-master-yoshiharu-habu-wins-seventh-eisei-lifetime-title/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T18:25:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-habu-b-20171206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shogi player Yoshiharu Habu poses for a photo Wednesday in Ibusuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, a day after he won the Ryuo title, making him the first-ever player to win a seventh eisei lifetime title.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/business/corporate-business/struggling-toshiba-boosts-capital-avoid-delisting-tokyo-stock-exchange/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T18:27:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toshiba-a-20171207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯Toshiba Corp. completed a ¥600 billion﷯ third-party allocation, removing the risk of delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/business/corporate-business/sony-panasonic-join-fundraising-japan-display-affiliate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T18:43:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/business/tokyo-startup-taps-ai-big-data-turn-customer-complaints-cash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T18:49:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-complaint-a-20171207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Insight Tech President Tomohiro Ito poses for a photo at the firm's headquarters in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Oct. 25.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-n-officials-visit-north-korea-may-set-stage-talks-nuclear-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T18:59:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/f-nktalks-a-20171207.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nktalks-a-20171207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman arrives at Pyongyang International Airport on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/business/tech/nissan-test-robot-taxis-march-eyeing-official-launch-early-2020s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T19:13:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-robotaxi-a-20171207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. will test "robot taxis" in March next year, eyeing an official launch of the service in the early 2020s.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/national/japan-weighs-budget-long-range-cruise-missiles-amid-north-korea-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T22:03:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-missiles-a-20171207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lockheed Martin Corp.'s AGM-158 JASSM-ER air-to-ground long-range missile is seen in this file photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-beijing-agree-implement-communication-mechanism-aimed-averting-clashes-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T23:37:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/national/crime-legal/rape-allegations-high-profile-journalist-dropped-prosecutors-last-year-return-civil-suit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-06T23:44:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-shiori-a-20171206.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shiori-a-20171206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiori Ito]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/business/corporate-business/paperwork-embalming-tokyo-mortuary-firm-handles-cross-border-death-care/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T00:09:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-airhearse-a-20171207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Airhearse International Inc. President Rie Kimura stands next to the company's Angel Freight logo, which appears on the rear door of a truck used as a preparation site for bodies, in the cargo area at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Oct. 23.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/business/economy-business/gop-cuts-homeowner-tax-breaks-threaten-cost-republicans-2018-races-hit-property-values/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T07:28:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/b-taxes-a-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-taxes-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bekah Bailey (right) of Minneapolis is warned by a Capitol Police officer of arrest unless she and others move on from a hallway where they were protesting the Republican tax overhaul bill Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/national/crime-legal/tv-owners-legally-obliged-pay-nhk-fee-top-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T10:14:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-nhk-a-20171207.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nhk-a-20171207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the system that allows NHK to charge television owners is constitutional.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-attorney-general-calls-efficient-review-immigration-cases-bid-boost-deportations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T10:20:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/f-sessions-a-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sessions-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attorney General Jeff Sessions pauses before speaking at the Global Forum on Asset Recovery (GFAR) at the International Finance Corporation in Washington Monday about anti-corruption efforts of the Trump administration and other topics.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/national/japans-tourism-trade-embraces-portable-credit-card-terminals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T13:04:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-creditcard-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Swedish customer hands his credit card to a waiter at The Rigoletto, a restaurant serving Southern European cuisine in Tokyo's Shibuya district, on Sept. 19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/business/financial-markets/bitcoin-climbs-12000-futures-move-closer-reality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T13:18:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/b-bitcoin-a-20171207.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bitcoin-a-20171207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bitcoin surpassed $12,000 for the first time Wednesday amid speculation that the widespread use of futures will help digital currencies gain mainstream acceptance.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/national/amid-spate-incidents-mario-kart-drivers-required-buckle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T15:15:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-mariokart-a-20171207.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mariokart-a-20171207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists decked out in "Mario Kart" costumes and driving rented go-karts will soon be required to fasten their seat belts after a spate of accidents.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/business/corporate-business/kobe-steel-scandal-may-open-doors-rivals-spurned-suitors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T17:24:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/b-kobe-a-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kobe-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kobe Steel Ltd.'s product quality scandal is fueling speculation that the company's various businesses could be sold off or that a merger with a rival is possible.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-sworn-flynn-texted-russia-sanctions-ripped-speed-reactor-deal-whistle-blower/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T17:29:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/f-flynn-a-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-flynn-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves federal court Friday in Washington. A whistle-blower has told House Democrats that during President Donald Trump's inauguration speech, Flynn texted a former business associate to say a private nuclear proposal Flynn had lobbied for would have his support in the White House.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/business/japan-issue-bonds-fund-%c2%a52-9-trillion-extra-budget-missile-defense-day-care-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T17:40:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/business/japans-robots-stepping-fill-worst-labor-shortage-40-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T17:49:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/b-robot-z-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-robot-z-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee types on a touch screen as a Geek Inc. Eve robot transports shelves at Acca International Co. warehouse in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, on Sept. 7.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/national/social-issues/social-media-companies-ban-suicide-solicitation-services/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T18:15:15+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/national/crime-legal/top-court-decision-nhk-fees-raises-questions-broadcasters-relevance-internet-age/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T18:25:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-nhkfocus-a-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nhkfocus-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wednesday's ruling by the Supreme Court, which stated that TV owners must pay for NHK, is raising questions about the roles and relevance of the public broadcaster as more young people turn to the internet for video content.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/business/financial-markets/bitcoin-jumps-nearly-8-day-end-14000/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T18:26:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/b-bitcoin-a-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bitcoin-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯Bitcoin surged above $14,000 on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/business/economy-business/boj-continue-monetary-easing-gauging-economic-effects-kuroda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T18:35:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/b-boj-a-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda says the central bank will continue its "powerful" monetary easing.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/world/crime-legal-world/drug-dealers-convicted-trafficking-teenage-girl-landmark-u-k-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T18:40:00+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/business/corporate-business/honda-chinese-firm-develop-ai-tech-self-driving-vehicles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T18:40:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/national/new-tokyo-station-plaza-offers-pleasant-promenade-imperial-palace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T18:49:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-tokyoplaza-a-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tokyoplaza-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk across a new plaza on the Marunouchi side of Tokyo Station on Thursday. The plaza provides easier access to the Imperial Palace. Construction on the project, a collaboration between JR East and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, began in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/national/final-selections-tokyo-2020-mascot-design-face-student-vote-first-time-ever/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T18:51:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-mascots-a-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mascots-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Three sets of mascot designs for the Tokyo 2020 Games, chosen from 2,042 submissions from professional and amateur designers, are unveiled as finalists during a ceremony at Kakezuka Elementary School in Tokyo on Thursday. Voting by elementary school pupils nationwide will be held over the next few months before the winner is announced on Feb. 28.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/national/japanese-planetariums-art-museums-tap-vr-craze-offer-immersive-experiences/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T19:55:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-virtual-a-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-virtual-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor tries out an immersive way to view the universe at VirtuaLink, a virtual reality entertainment facility in Tokyo's Koto Ward run by Konica Minolta Inc., on Nov. 13.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-ex-envoy-robert-gallucci-urges-washington-pyongyang-consider-chinas-freeze-freeze-compromise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T19:55:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-interview-a-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-interview-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Gallucci, the chief U.S. negotiator for a now-defunct 1994 nuclear freeze agreement struck with North Korea, is interviewed on Nov. 29 in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/national/social-issues/lgbt-advocates-push-nationwide-recognition-sex-marriage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T20:10:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-marriage-z-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-marriage-z-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Experts say the introduction of a same-sex partnership system in Tokyo's wards and other municipalities has raised public awareness about LGBT rights.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/national/history/cosmetic-surgeon-katsuya-takasu-pays-275000-emperor-hirohito-memoir-ny-auction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T20:55:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-memoir-a-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-memoir-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this Monday image from an Associated Press Television video, the post-World War II memoirs composed by Japanese Emperor Hirohito are displayed at Bonham's auction house in New York. On Wednesday, the two-volume, 173 page document, which offers the Emperor's recollections of World War II, fetched $275,000 at an auction in New York.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-threat-prompts-japan-rethink-security-strategy-adopted-2013-add-sence-urgency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T20:55:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/national/alarm-object-possibly-u-s-military-plane-falls-okinawa-nursery-school/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T20:56:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-okinawa-a-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okinawa-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, can be seen in the upper part of this aerial photo. The nursery school where a cylindrical object fell from the sky on Thursday is indicated by an arrow.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/business/corporate-business/resurgent-sharp-returns-tses-first-section-16-month-absence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T20:56:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/b-sharp-a-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sharp-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp Corp. President and CEO Tai Jeng-wu rings a bell at a ceremony to mark the company's return to the Tokyo Stock Exchange's first section on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/business/maximum-point-danger-businesses-brace-brexit-disarray-talks-stall-may-struggles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-08T07:17:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/world/social-issues-world/sale-migrants-slaves-libya-may-constitute-crime-humanity-unsc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-08T07:30:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/f-libya-a-20171209.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-libya-a-20171209.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nigerian returnees from Libya wait to be registered upon arrival at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos Tuesday. Hundreds of Nigerians have returned from Libya as part of an organized repatriation by The African Union and member states amid outrage over recent footage that showed migrants being auctioned off as slaves.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/world/hurricane-force-winds-threaten-southern-california-wildfires-force-200000-flee-gut-hundreds-homes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-08T10:19:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-wildfires-a-20171209.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man takes pictures of wildfires from a highway in Ojai, California, Thuesday in this picture obtained from social media.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/world/crime-legal-world/judge-charges-argentina-ex-leader-fernandez-treason-jewish-center-blast-seeks-arrest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-08T11:07:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Argentine President and Sen. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner gestures during a news conference at the Congress in Buenos Aires Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/national/crime-legal/architect-japans-lay-judge-system-become-chief-justice-supreme-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-08T11:50:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-layjudge-a-20171208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-layjudge-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoto Otani]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/national/history/testimony-denies-koreans-engaged-forced-labor-unesco-coal-mine-site-dubbed-battleship-island/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-08T14:30:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-koreanworkers-a-20171209.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-koreanworkers-a-20171209.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government plans to release public testimony denying Koreans were forced to work under harsh conditions at the Hashima Coal Mine in Nakagasaki Prefecture during World War II, sources said.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/business/incj-looks-become-holding-company-bid-boost-investment-venture-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-08T15:52:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/business/ldp-komeito-look-hike-taxes-5-japans-salaried-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-08T16:03:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/07/national/crime-legal/osaka-lawyers-protest-police-move-prevent-female-defendant-wearing-bra-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-08T16:33:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/business/corporate-business/president-says-half-uny-superstores-converted-don-quijote-outlets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-08T17:35:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/national/history/wrecks-believed-5-japanese-wartime-ships-found-southern-philippines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-08T17:36:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-wrecks-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo posted on the Facebook page of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen shows a shipwreck thought to be one of five Japanese naval ships that sunk during World War II in the southern Philippines.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/national/osaka-regales-top-world-expo-official-concerns-linger-hosting-2025-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-08T17:46:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dimitri Kerkentzes (center), deputy secretary-general of the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions, is welcomed by Osaka Prefectural Government officials at the government's offices in the city of Osaka on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/business/abes-free-day-care-pledge-may-appealing-solution-wrong-problem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-08T18:42:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/b-yenforliving-a-20171209.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-yenforliving-a-20171209.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some parents say that the government's free day care plan is wasteful because even households that make a lot of money, and can afford expensive private day care, will be reimbursed if the program is implemented.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/business/bumper-year-year-chinas-import-growth-seen-tumbling-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-08T18:47:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/b-chinatrade-a-20171209.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinatrade-a-20171209.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traffic drives along a highway in Beijing. Following brisk business this year, the pace of China's import growth is forecast to slow in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/national/defense-ministry-says-will-seek-funding-long-range-cruise-missiles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-08T18:49:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Itsunori Onodera]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-08T19:30:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigate a house Thursday in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture, where a woman allegedly stabbed her son's 8-year-old classmate earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-08T22:13:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-08T23:30:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visit disabled workers at a Tokyo department store on Friday, the day the Cabinet formally approved the Emperor's abdication date of April 30, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-unscathed-scandals-special-diet-session-wraps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-08T23:30:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers questions on the Moritomo Gakuen scandal in the Upper House on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-09T11:10:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Skyscrapers are seen in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo on December 3, 2017. According to government data released Friday, Japan's economy grew an annualized real 2.5 percent in the July-September period, revised up from preliminary data and marking seven straight quarters of growth — the longest stretch on record.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/09/business/e-sports-chocolates-chinese-cities-rush-risky-specialization-projects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-09T13:59:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/09/world/trump-lifts-refugee-ban-admissions-still-plummet-figures-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-09T15:03:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman outside Federal Plaza in New York protests against U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order blocking visitors from seven predominantly Muslim nations on Jan. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/09/national/sachiyo-nomura-wife-former-hanshin-tigers-skipper-dies-85/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-09T16:33:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sachiyo Nomura]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/09/world/saudi-arabia-pushes-palestinians-consider-nascent-u-s-peace-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-09T17:14:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-palestrump-a-20171210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Palestinians gathered at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on Friday protest U.S. President Donald Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-09T17:24:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike celebrates the victory of her Tomin First no Kai (Tokyoites First) at a hotel in Shinjuku Ward on July 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/09/national/media-national/women-unimpressed-advice-spend-time-alone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-09T22:57:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women's magazine Ginger Web has created a stir by publishing an article that offers single women advice on how to spend time alone.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/national/paris-host-japonismes-2018-cultural-expo-mark-160-years-diplomatic-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-09T19:45:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The digital artwork "Transcending Boundaries" by teamLab, a Tokyo-based art collective known for its digital art installations, is displayed. The group's artworks are expected to bring many visitors to next year's Japonismes 2018 in Paris.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-09T22:03:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The front of a maglev train is unveiled during a test run in Tsuru, Yamanashi Prefecture, in September 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-09T22:57:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Getty Center is seen after a wildfire swept through Los Angeles' Bel Air neighborhood on Wednesday. The $1 billion home to the J. Paul Getty Museum and related organizations, stands on the west side of Sepulveda Pass. The fire did not immediately cross the wide expanse of the pass to the Getty side, but if it had, the facility is prepared.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-09T23:40:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gutted apartment is inspected in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Saturday after a blaze killed five people there Friday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-10T12:22:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean fishing boat (center) taken into custody on Nov. 28 by the Japan Coast Guard off Matsumae, Hokkaido, attempts to escape from its escort (left) on Friday near Hakodate port.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/national/politics-diplomacy/%c2%a52-trillion-package-child-care-free-education-japan-wins-cabinet-approval/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-10T12:49:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-11T04:18:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-11T07:57:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Dec. 4 photo shows the Celia dairy company's infant milk factory that belongs to the LNS Lactalis group in Craon, western France. France Sunday announced recall measures regarding several infant nutrition products manufactured by Lactalis in Craon after five new cases of salmonella infections were detected last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/11/business/singer-neil-youngs-model-trains-fetch-nearly-300000-auction-1953-buick-goes-400000/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-11T08:09:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/11/world/crime-legal-world/swedish-leader-slams-attempted-arson-attack-synagogue-three-arrested/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-11T10:14:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police are seen at the site of an attack near a synagogue in Gothenburg, Sweden, Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/11/world/1000-santas-brave-cold-run-streets-german-town/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-11T10:21:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People dressed as Santa Claus run through the streets of Michendorf, Germany, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/11/world/iraq-forces-stage-victory-parade-mark-defeat-islamic-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-11T11:04:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Iraqi forces flash the victory gesture as they ride in the back of a pickup truck on a street in the southern city of Basra on Sunday amid victory celebrations after Baghdad declared victory in the war against the Islamic State (IS) group.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-11T11:11:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters display placards during a rally outside the Department of Health as they demand accountability for government officials involved in the controversial immunization of the anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia to more than 700,000 Filipino children Friday in Manila. The controversial vaccine, manufactured by Sanofi Pasteur, was put on hold by the Philippines last week after new study findings showed it posed risks of severe cases in people without previous infection. The controversy has prompted the Philippine Senate to conduct an investigation.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-11T13:21:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-11T13:21:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-11T14:20:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Prize in literature laureate 2017, makes a speech during the Nobel banquet in the City Hall of Stockholm on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-11T14:45:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Itsunori Onodera]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/10/national/former-toshiba-president-atsutoshi-nishida-played-key-role-dynabook-notebook-computer-dies-age-73/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-11T14:59:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Toshiba Corp. President and Chairman Atsutoshi Nishida speaks at a news conference in Tokyo in 2009. He passed away Friday at the age of 73.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-11T15:23:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono delivers a speech at a security forum in Manama on Saturday. Bahrain's capital was the first stop on his five-nation trip to the Middle East, Europe and the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-11T16:53:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A large TV monitor set up in the Yurakucho district of Tokyo shows news of North Korea's missile launch on Nov. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-11T17:08:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May and her husband, Philip leave church in Sonning, Britain, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-11T18:24:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-11T19:21:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Are you able to keep up with high school girls' vocabulary?]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-11T20:04:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-11T20:06:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Chairman Masayoshi Son is interviewed on "The David Rubenstein Show" in New York in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/11/national/chance-encounter-led-hiroki-watanabe-dhaka-tackling-child-poverty-education/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-11T20:33:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-generational-a-20171212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroki Watanabe, founder of Ekmattra, speaks during an interview in Ginza on Nov. 20, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/11/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-repeats-hopes-future-oriented-ties-visiting-south-korean-delegation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-11T20:38:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/11/national/crime-legal/beating-case-involving-sumo-grand-champion-harumafuji-sent-prosecutors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-11T20:41:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-harumafuji-a-20171212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Harumafuji bows along with his stablemaster Isegahama at a Nov. 29 news conference as he announces his retirement in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture. The former sumo wrestler was referred to prosecutors Monday for his assault of lower-ranked wrestler Takanoiwa.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/11/national/crime-legal/suspected-serial-killer-takahiro-shiraishi-served-second-murder-warrant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-11T20:41:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takahiro Shiraishi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/11/national/tokyo-subway-tests-messaging-system-help-pregnant-women-secure-seats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-11T20:58:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Metro Co. is trying out a new system that allows pregnant women to ask subway passengers via the Line messaging app to give up their seats.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/11/national/politics-diplomacy/russian-military-chief-warns-japan-u-s-exercises-near-korean-peninsula/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-11T22:34:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/11/national/crime-legal/hepatitis-b-victims-win-vaccination-redress-state-relapses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-11T23:12:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-11T23:22:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-komatsu-a-20171212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satoru Anzaki, a former president of machinery manufacturer Komatsu Ltd., speaks to reporters Monday after holding what he billed as a farewell party.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/11/national/crime-legal/ishikawa-assemblyman-faces-calls-resign-slandering-local-restaurant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T01:33:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kaga Municipal Assembly member Hiroto Inui speaks to reporters at the Kaga Municipal Government building in Ishikawa Prefecture last week about his anonymous online slandering of a local restaurant.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/11/world/new-normal-another-huge-southern-california-wildfire-flares-forces-evacuations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T01:34:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-calfires-a-20171212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flames advance on homes off Shepard Mesa Road at 5:45 Sunday morning in Carpinteria, California. A flare-up on the western edge of Southern California's largest and most destructive wildfire sent residents fleeing Sunday, as wind-fanned flames churned through canyons and down hillsides toward coastal towns.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/world/social-issues-world/judge-rules-u-s-military-must-accept-transgender-recruits-jan-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T06:33:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trans-a-20171213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters shout slogans last July against U.S. President Donald Trump during a demonstration in front of the U.S. Army career center in Times Square, New York. A  federal judge Monday denied a request from the Trump administration to delay allowing transgender recruits to join the military, clearing the way for them to enlist from Jan. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/tillerson-meet-trudeau-next-week-north-korea-crisis-talks-ottawa-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T06:48:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-tells-nasa-send-astronauts-back-moon-later-mars-offers-no-concrete-budget/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T11:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/f-space-a-20171213.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-space-a-20171213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for Space Policy Directive 1, with the aim of returning Americans to the moon, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/11/business/rakuten-inc-teams-booking-com-offer-minpaku-lodging-services/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T11:46:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-rakuten-a-20171212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Munekatsu Ota, head of Rakuten Lifull Stay Inc., speaks about his company's partnership with Booking.com, and his plans for the vacation rental business, on Monday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/world/social-issues-world/amnesty-accuses-eu-complicit-abetting-migrant-rights-violations-libya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T12:37:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-amnesty-a-20171213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[African refugees and migrants, mostly from Sudan and Senegal, wait for assistance aboard a rubber boat out of control, 25 miles north of Sabratha, off the Libyan coast in February. Rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday accused European Union countries of being 'knowingly complicit' in the detention and abuse of thousands of migrants detained in appalling conditions in Libya.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-crisis-hurting-efforts-locate-abducted-japanese-nationals-u-n-human-rights-chief-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T16:18:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abductees-a-20171213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese ambassador to the U.N. Koro Bessho speaks during a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/national/politics-diplomacy/otsuka-may-disband-struggling-democratic-party-form-new-opposition-force-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T16:50:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-dp-a-20171213.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dp-a-20171213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party President Kohei Otsuka (center) and other executives attend a party meeting Tuesday in Tokyo to discuss the future of the faltering opposition force.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/business/economy-business/japans-wholesale-prices-3-5-fastest-pace-since-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T16:52:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers move through the toy department in an Ito-Yokado Co. store in Tokyo. Wholesale prices rose 3.5 percent in November from last year, the fastest pace since September 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/national/politics-diplomacy/jerusalem-issue-puts-japans-top-envoy-tight-spot-middle-east/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T17:41:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/business/ai-firm-use-machine-learning-programs-decipher-corporate-earnings-announcements/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T18:40:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-harvard-a-20171213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Harvard University campus is draped in autumn colors recently. Evan Schnidman, a hedge fund-backed political economy specialist with a Harvard Ph.D., is looking to use machine-learning programs to analyze corporate earnings announcements.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/national/japan-studies-programs-abroad-falling-short-giving-grads-clear-career-path-country/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T19:05:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-graduates-z-20171213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[One expert said that many foreign graduates drop out of Japanese firms because they have unrealistic expectations.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/asia-pacific/u-s-south-korea-may-delay-annual-joint-military-exercises-winter-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T19:05:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber (left), two U.S. F-35As and two U.S. F-35B stealth fighters fly over South Korea with two South Korean F-16s and F-15Ks during a joint military drill on Dec. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/national/north-korean-bodies-boats-reach-japans-coasts-survivors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T19:54:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/national/crime-legal/tokyo-prosecutors-suspect-jr-tokai-official-leaked-maglev-bid-information-obayashi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T20:05:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-maglev-a-20171213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An L0-series maglev train, which set a world speed record of 603 kph in 2015, is seen during a test run in Yamanashi Prefecture in April of that year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/national/charles-jenkins-husband-japanese-ex-abductee-north-korea-hitomi-soga-dies-77/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T20:29:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/national/japan-moves-ahead-plans-join-u-s-led-project-build-space-station-orbiting-moon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T20:30:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (right) speaks during a meeting Tuesday at his office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/business/tech/japanese-solar-firm-take-tesla-roof-tile-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T20:31:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-solar-a-20171213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Solar Frontier CEO Atsuhiko Hirano plans to sell solar panels incorporated into roofing and wall materials, facing off with Tesla Inc. in building technology that can generate power in the smallest spaces available.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/national/japanese-workers-feel-guilty-taking-time-off-use-fewer-holidays-international-peers-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T20:31:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-expedia-a-20171213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey has shown that more than 60 percent of Japanese workers feel guilty for taking paid holidays.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/world/crime-legal-world/times-square-subway-bomber-claims-ties-islamic-state-officials-say-hes-solo-player/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T20:32:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ullah-c-20171213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials place suspect Akayed Ullah, on a stretcher, into the back of an ambulance on Eighth Avenue between 42nd Street and 43rd Street Monday in New York.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/11/national/crime-legal/obayashi-suspected-rigging-bid-emergency-exit-work-maglev-train-station/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T20:34:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bidrigging-a-20171211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Obayashi Corp. logo is seen at its headquarters in Tokyo's Minato Ward. The major construction firm is suspected of having rigged a bid for the building of a maglev train station emergency exit.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/business/next-bank-japan-chief-faces-job-hell-kuroda-critic-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T20:39:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/08/national/media-national/shogi-measure-artificial-intelligence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-13T03:08:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-brasor-mediamix-a-20170709.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On game: Fourteen-year-old shogi player Sota Fujii celebrates his 29th win at the Ryuo Championship.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/national/asdf-stages-large-scale-drills-u-s-bombers-stealth-fighters-near-korean-peninsula/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-13T04:07:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-asdf-a-20171213.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-asdf-a-20171213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the 8th ammunition industry convention on Monday in Pyongyang in this photo released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/national/crime-legal/ex-u-s-base-worker-appeals-life-sentence-killing-okinawa-woman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-13T04:09:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A courtroom at the Naha District Court is seen on Dec. 1, when former U.S. base worker Kenneth Franklin Shinzato was sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a 20-year-old woman.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/13/world/social-issues-world/aid-5-3-million-syrian-refugees-dries-another-mass-exodus-europe-will-follow-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-13T07:35:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiseido Co.'s Tokyo headquarters is seen in December 2013. The firm's U.S. headquarters will move into a renovated midtown Manhattan office tower.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korea may tax capital gains from cryptocurrency trading as global regulators worry about a bubble.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. announced Wednesday its partner, Western Digital Corp., has agreed to drop its legal action aimed at blocking the sale of Toshiba's chip unit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (Brexit Minister) David Davis leaves the Houses of Parliament in central London on Wednesday. British Prime Minister Theresa May today suffered a damaging parliamentary defeat over Brexit, after her own MPs rebelled to demand Parliament have the final say on the divorce deal with Brussels.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Osaka City Assembly is seen passing a resolution Tuesday condemning the city of San Francisco's move to accept a statue to wartime "comfort women."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-14T16:22:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-14T17:18:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Minokamo Mayor Hiroto Fujii speaks at a news conference on Wednesday in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, after the Supreme Court upheld his conviction for graft.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/14/national/crime-legal/government-utilities-shaken-high-court-challenge-public-trust-japans-nuclear-authority/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-14T17:32:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents who filed an injunction to suspend the restart of a reactor at the Ikata nuclear power plant speak at a news conference Wednesday in Hiroshima.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/13/national/shiga-ranks-top-japans-average-life-expectancy-men-aomori-lowest-sexes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-14T18:18:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hikonyan(right), a popular mascot from Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, celebrates his 11th birthday together with Yachinyan, another local character, on April 13. According to the latest survey by the health ministry, Shiga Prefecture was ranked top for the first time for men's life expectancy in 2015, at 81.78 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/14/national/science-health/japan-pledges-2-9-billion-support-countries-pursuing-universal-health-coverage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-14T18:27:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers an opening speech at the Universal Health Coverage Forum, on Dec. 14 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/14/business/corporate-business/tokyu-land-leads-development-high-rise-condo-indonesia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-14T19:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-14T19:01:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-14T20:06:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jordanian Christians and Muslims march against the U.S. declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in Amman on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-14T20:08:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a memorial ceremony at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, on the second annual national day of remembrance to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the massacre in the city, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/14/national/80-percent-fail-evacuate-take-protection-measures-receiving-north-korean-missile-alerts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-14T20:08:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo, distributed by North Korea on Aug. 30, shows what the regime claims to be a Hwasong-12 missile test launch.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-14T20:25:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe review an honor guard before their meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/14/national/around-10-percent-japanese-smartphone-users-ok-sharing-intimate-photos-partners-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-14T20:25:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A government-backed cybersecurity agency says sharing sexually explicit photos via social media carries risks of revenge porn.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/14/world/china-summons-australian-ambassador-allegations-political-meddling-beijing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-14T23:03:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-15T04:17:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-15T04:20:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-15T07:11:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., meets with reporters to answer questions on the tax bill and sexual misconduct on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/13/national/century-old-kanagawa-inn-deploys-modern-tech-come-back-brink-bankruptcy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T09:55:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-inn-b-20171214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees at Jinya look at a tablet on Nov. 10. The traditional inn has turned to technology to manage reservations and various other parts of its operations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/world/rising-worries-u-s-self-made-terrorists-islamic-state-weakens-abroad-still-inspires-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T10:47:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A New York City Police (NYPD) officer stands in the subway corridor at the New York Port Authority subway station near the site of an attempted detonation the day before in New York City Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/world/nikki-haley-unveils-missile-parts-claims-prove-iran-arming-houthis-violation-unsc-resolutions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T10:57:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-iran-a-20171216.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The remains of an Iranian Qasef-1 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, used as a one-way attack UAV to dive on targets and then detonating its warhead, was fired by Yemen into Saudi Arabia, according to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley during a press briefing at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling Thursday in Washington. Haley says "undeniable" evidence proves Iran is violating international law by funneling missiles to Houthi rebels in Yemen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/14/national/politics-diplomacy/high-earners-smokers-tourists-see-higher-levies-planned-fiscal-2018-tax-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T12:13:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-tax-z-20171215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tax-z-20171215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new tax reform package would affect salaried workers earning over ¥8.5 million annually, smokers, and tourists.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-britain-agree-pressure-north-korea-halt-threats-seek-open-indo-pacific-region/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T12:31:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson (from left)to right), Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera, Foreign Minister Taro Kono and British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson examine a selection of historical naval artifacts in the Queen's House gallery in Greenwich, London.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/14/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-chinese-views-recent-ties-greatly-improved-poll-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T12:43:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-jcpoll-a-20171215.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese nonprofit think tank Genron NPO and the China International Publishing Group hold a joint news conference on Thursday in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/national/japans-african-kids-club-protests-black-thing-remark-lawmaker-kozo-yamamoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T13:26:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-gaffe-a-20171216.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gaffe-a-20171216.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kozo Yamamoto]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/business/tech/net-neutrality-repeal-gives-u-s-democrats-fresh-way-reach-millennials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T14:53:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/14/business/corporate-business/japanese-space-startup-raises-%c2%a510-2-billion-toward-2020-moonshot-effort/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T16:13:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee looks at a concept model of Ispace Inc.'s lunar lander during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday. Tokyo-based Ispace said it raised ¥10.2 billion from some of the country's biggest businesses, including Japan Airlines Co. and Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings Inc.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/putin-praises-trumps-achievements-calls-donald-says-alleged-collusion-just-spy-mania/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T17:57:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A combination of 2016 file photos shows Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow and U.S. President Donald Trump posing for a photo in New York City.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/business/japan-u-k-seek-mutual-recognition-trade-standards-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T18:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-15T18:09:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A model of Toto Ltd.'s Tornado washing toilet is displayed at the company's showroom in Tokyo in 2016. The toilet maker is boosting its production capacity in Thailand to meet global demand.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/business/tech/fight-save-open-internet-rules-faces-long-odds-u-s-courtrooms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T18:23:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-netsuits-a-20171216.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai speaks to reporters after a meeting where the commission voted to end net neutrality, on Thursday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/world/crime-legal-world/hackers-invade-safety-system-halt-mideast-plant-operations-watershed-cyberattack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T19:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The FireEye logo is seen outside the company's offices in Milpitas, California, in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/world/flight-sexual-assaults-often-unreported-airlines-need-step/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T19:22:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/f-airassaults-a-20171216.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-airassaults-a-20171216.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actress Zaira Wasim, shown arriving for a promotional event in Mumbai on Sunday, said in a video alleging that a fellow passenger had assaulted her the same night, "Is this how we are going to take care of girls?"]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/asia-pacific/focus-shifts-north-korea-china-keeps-building-disputed-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T19:54:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-scsislands-a-20171216.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An annotated satellite image of Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly island chain of the South China Sea shows areas where China has conducted construction work above ground during 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-freezes-assets-19-north-korean-institutions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T20:50:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spectators listen to a television news broadcast of a statement by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un outside a railway station in Pyongyang on Sept. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/national/crime-legal/japans-top-court-rules-failed-horse-racing-bets-tax-deductible/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T20:50:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People who have lost a large amount of money in horse race bets can treat the losses as tax deductible, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/national/crime-legal/tokyo-shrine-murder-suspect-sent-thousands-pieces-mail-disparaging-victim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-15T22:41:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigenaga Tomioka]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/turkey-seeking-annul-trumps-decision-jerusalem-u-n-tayyip-erdogan-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-16T09:11:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) shakes hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani prior to their meeting after the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Extraordinary Summit in Istanbul, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech Friday at the headquarters of Kyodo News in Tokyo. 		kyodo]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) Reince Priebus embraces President-elect Donald Trump during election night at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York Wednesday. CNN is reporting Sunday that Trump has selected Priebus to be his White House chief of staff.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/bannon-departure-tips-trade-scales-favor-white-house-globalists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T00:23:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steve Bannon, then a top White House strategist, waits as U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Lynchburg Regional Airport in Lynchburg, Virginia, in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-18T00:26:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jim Mattis]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-18T00:27:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (left) meets with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at U.N. headquarters in New York on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-18T10:15:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democrat Doug Jones, who won the special U.S. Senate election against Republican candidate Roy Moore, speaks during a news conference in Birmingham, Alabama, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-say-security-speech-china-competitor-officials-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T12:00:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-18T13:33:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yumiko Watanabe (left), one of the organizers of a project aimed at tackling unreasonable school rules, speaks at a news conference Thursday at the education ministry, as Chiki Ogiue, another project member, looks on.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/asia-pacific/vietnam-follows-beijing-south-china-sea-upgrades/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T14:11:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-18T15:42:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hats in support of President Donal Trump are for sale during a pro-Trump rally at Westlake Park, Sunday, in Seattle.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/business/economy-business/south-korea-trade-ministry-says-ready-begin-renegotiating-u-s-trade-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T16:38:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-18T17:18:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/business/corporate-business/third-time-lucky-ana-seeks-myanmar-venture-despite-two-failed-attempts-since-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T17:19:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-18T17:19:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/national/japan-set-command-center-address-threats-space-cyberspace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T18:35:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/business/coal-still-king-germany-despite-new-renewables-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T18:37:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-18T18:43:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/business/economy-business/exports-asia-help-japan-mark-trade-surplus-sixth-month-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T18:44:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cargo ship docked at the Tokyo waterfront waits to be loaded on Dec. 14]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-said-ready-cooperate-chinas-silk-road-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T18:58:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abechina-a-20171219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-set-designate-china-strategic-competitor-trumps-first-national-security-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T20:13:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpsec-a-20171219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/business/financial-markets/bank-japans-expansion-bond-holdings-slow-2018-economists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T20:13:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20171219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan headquarters is seen in central Tokyo. The pace at which the central bank is expanding its massive hoard of bonds is expected to slow in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/business/corporate-business/honda-marks-5-million-unit-milestone-motorcycle-output-malaysia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T20:13:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-honda-a-20171219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda Motor Co. has built more than 5 million motorcycles in Malaysia in its 60 years of doing business there.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/national/crime-legal/tokyo-prosecutors-raid-contractors-kajima-shimizu-maglev-train-bid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T20:26:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-maglev-a-20171219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prosecutors on Monday raid the headquarters of Kajima Corp. in Tokyo's Minato Ward over alleged antitrust violations concerning maglev train construction tenders.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-forces-resume-ch-53e-chopper-flights-despite-okinawa-school-accident-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T20:27:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A CH-53E helicopter that accidentally dropped a window onto an elementary school playground Okinawa is parked at nearby Futenma air base in Ginowan on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-18T20:27:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chiyoko Iwanaga, leader of the plaintiffs in a Nagasaki hibakusha-recognition case, stands in front of the Supreme Court on Monday after the court's ruling.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-18T20:27:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heavy water leaked in September from a nuclear reactor housed in this structure at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute in Kumatori, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-18T20:37:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[International departures will be subject to a ¥1,000 tax set to be imposed by the government on all travelers leaving the country from January 2019, intended to secure funding for tourism infrastructure ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/national/woman-impaired-vision-killed-train-falling-onto-tracks-osaka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T20:42:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-18T22:46:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A monitor displays the status of cryptocurrency mining at a mining facility in Incheon, South Korea, on Friday. Hedge funds are pulling out of gold bets as more exciting moves in equities and cryptocurrencies make safe-haven investments look boring.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/business/financial-markets/european-finance-chiefs-want-regulate-bitcoin-clamp-illegal-risks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T22:47:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[ATM machines the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin are seen in Hong Kong on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/world/interim-review-grenfell-tower-tragedy-calls-culture-change-u-k-fire-safety/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-18T23:21:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mourners hold white roses and photos of victims as they leave the Grenfell Tower National Memorial Service at St. Paul's Cathedral in London on Thursday to mark the six-month anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. Britain marked on December 14, 2017, the six-month anniversary of London's Grenfell Tower fire, in which 71 people perished.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-19T04:29:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe accepts a report on the nation's ocean policy plan from Koji Miyahara (left), chairman of the advisory panel, in the Prime Minister's Office on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-19T06:47:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Athersys scientists review cell count data for MultiStem in this handout photo received Dec. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/19/business/gm-urges-judge-throw-disputed-1-billion-ignition-switch-deal-car-owners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-19T07:31:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-19T10:43:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British police stand guard at the entrance to the U..S Air Force base at RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk, Britain, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/17/business/corporate-business/sony-takes-detour-selling-aromatic-walkman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-19T13:12:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shuji Fujita, who helped create Sony Corp.'s Aromastic, a portable aroma diffuser, poses with the product in Tokyo in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/17/national/media-national/abe-flooded-messages-opening-official-instagram-account/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-19T13:51:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Instagram account shows many people posting messages.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/national/social-issues/ipc-officials-press-greater-hotel-accessibility-tokyo-area-2020-paralympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-19T14:16:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-barrier-a-20171219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo lags behind other major international cities for availability of hotel rooms accessible to people with disabilities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/19/world/social-issues-world/number-international-migrants-jumps-258-million-half-since-2000-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-19T14:43:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants rest aboard the MV Aquarius, a search and rescue ship run in partnership between SOS Mediterranee and Medecins Sans Frontieres, as it approaches the Italian island of Sicily after rescue operations in the central Mediterranean off the coast of Libya Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/19/national/giant-panda-cub-makes-debut-lucky-ticket-holders-line-ueno-zoo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-19T16:06:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-panda-b-20171220.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Giant panda Shin Shin drags her panda cub Xiang Xiang onTuesday, the first day of her public debut at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/19/national/politics-diplomacy/foreign-minister-taro-kono-suggests-buying-plane-overseas-trips-counter-chinas-diplomatic-clout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-19T16:54:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-19T17:34:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a Tokyo hotel on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-19T17:35:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-19T17:36:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-19T18:02:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-19T18:03:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-19T18:11:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-19T18:12:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-19T18:42:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, smiles as she walks to the Senate floor to speak as Republicans in the House and Senate plan to pass the sweeping $1.5 trillion GOP tax bill on party-line votes, at the Capitol in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-19T19:13:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This is ECA, the roving probe developed by TeamIndus for a lunar landing contest.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-19T21:31:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-19T21:32:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-19T21:33:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono (right) greets his South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-wha during their meeting at the Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo on Tuesday. Kono and Kang discussed the North Korean threat as well as bilateral relations.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-20T04:17:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan and Japan began discussions on Tuesday about setting up a cooperation mechanism for fishing near Okinotori, an area Taiwan considers international waters but Japan claims as being part of its exclusive economic zone.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/asia-pacific/myanmar-officials-find-10-corpses-mass-grave-rakhine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T07:06:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-20T07:12:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pyrolized Lithium ion accus of laptops, smartphones and accu-powered craftsmen tools are pictured at the German recycling firm Accurec in Krefeld, Germany, Nov.16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/world/science-health-world/u-s-lifts-funding-ban-gain-function-studies-enhance-dangerous-pathogens-like-sars-bird-flu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T07:14:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-20T07:16:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tom Bossert, homeland security adviser to President Donald Trump, holds a press briefing to publicly blame North Korea for unleashing the so-called WannaCry cyberattack at the White House in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/world/crime-legal-world/electronic-evidence-trail-malta-court-told-bomb-killed-blogger-probably-triggered-boat-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T10:05:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boat passes through the entrance to the Grand Harbour in Valletta last February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/business/london-cafe-boasts-selfieccino-self-portraits-froth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T10:19:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer drinks a 'Selfieccino' coffee at the Tea Terrace in London Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/world/latest-houthi-missile-fired-yemen-riyadh-bears-hallmarks-iran-arms-nikki-haley/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T11:11:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A ballistic missile is seen after it was fired toward the Saudi capital of Riyadh from an undisclosed location in Yemen, in this handout photo released Tuesday by the Houthi movement's War Media.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/myanmar-mum-whereabouts-reuters-journalists-week-arrest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T11:53:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reuters journalist Wa Lone, who is based in Myanmar, is seen working in Sittwe in the state of Rakhine in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/19/national/government-report-warns-impending-mega-quake-tsunami-off-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T12:05:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The coast near Nemuro, Hokkaido. A potential earthquake in the future could affect eastern Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/asia-pacific/north-korea-begins-tests-load-anthrax-onto-icbms-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T12:33:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/19/national/social-issues/taiwanese-man-facing-deportation-japan-struggles-stay-sex-partner/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T12:36:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Same-sex couples made up of Japanese and non-Japanese attend a public meeting Dec. 10 in Tokyo to support a Taiwanese man facing deportation despite his long-term relationship with a Japanese partner.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/world/fighting-eastern-ukraine-called-worst-since-february/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T14:16:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A house damaged by recent shelling is seen in the government-held village of Novoluhanske, Ukraine, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/business/tech/facebook-notify-users-photos-uploaded/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T15:31:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New facial recognition technology is demonstrated via a teleconference at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/19/business/corporate-business/subaru-report-says-lack-respect-regulations-led-inspection-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T15:32:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Subaru Corp. President Yasuyuki Yoshinaga (left) apologizes at the start of a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/national/politics-diplomacy/ruling-bloc-looks-start-next-ordinary-diet-session-jan-22-put-constitution-changes-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T15:51:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/business/japans-farm-output-take-%c2%a5150-billion-hit-tpp-11-effects-kick-much-less-u-s-joined-estimates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T16:29:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Farmers prepare rice seedlings in Ibaraki Prefecture in May. Once the effects of an 11-member Pacific Rim free trade agreement kick in, Japan's agricultural, forestry and fisheries output will suffer by a maximum of ¥150 billion, government estimates show.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/national/history/israels-peres-sent-secret-envoy-sound-japan-1985-playing-mideast-peace-role/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T16:52:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/national/ican-nobel-peace-prize-resonates-radiation-hit-marshall-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T17:39:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mushroom cloud forms after a U.S. nuclear test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in March 1954. Residents of the island nation in the Pacific were exposed to radiation as a result of almost 70 nuclear tests conducted from 1946 up to 1958. Many in the country support a ban on nuclear weapons.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/national/occupation-legacy-marshall-islands-residents-use-japanese-term-traditional-handicrafts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T17:40:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gradle Alfred shows off handicrafts on display at her shop in Majuro in late November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/business/corporate-business/chinese-startup-nio-battle-teslas-model-x-electric-suv/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T18:18:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[William Li, founder and chairman of Chinese automaker Nio, announces the launch of its ES8 electric SUV during an event in Beijing on Dec. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/business/corporate-business/rakuten-bic-camera-join-forces-online-electronics-store/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T18:18:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rakuten and Bic Camera will form a joint venture to operate an online store starting in April, the firms have said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/business/tech/softbank-leads-120-million-funding-financial-technology-startup-lemonade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T18:18:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/national/nagoya-university-hospital-left-gauze-inside-womans-body-44-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T18:29:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nagoya-z-20171221.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The hospital concluded there is a high probability that the doctors forgot to remove the gauze back in the 1970s.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/business/post-brexit-britain-may-struggle-top-japan-eu-free-trade-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T18:43:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee directs a Nissan Motor Co. Note, manufactured at the company's Sunderland plant, into a parking bay aboard the car carrier ship Nordic Ace at the Port of Tyne, in South Shields, Britain, in 2012. Experts say that Britain is unlikely to improve on the recent free trade agreement between Tokyo and Brussels.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/national/major-contractor-eyes-plea-bargain-system-route-evade-criminal-prosecution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-20T19:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panda bread, anyone?]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cannabis plants are seen growing in a room owned by 33-year-old Hiroshima man who was arrested in October on suspicion of violating the Narcotics Control Law.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[West Japan Railway Co. Vice President Norihiko Yoshie (second from left) and other executives hold a news conference in Osaka on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[State Patrol officers and workers gather before transporting the engine from an Amtrak train crash two days earlier away from the scene, Wednesday in DuPont, Washington. Federal investigators in the deadly train wreck want to know whether the engineer was distracted by a second person in his cab as his train hurtled into a curve at more than twice the speed limit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers remove two bodies hanged on the freeway to La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Wednesday in this picture from a social media.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[First Secretary of State Damian Green speaks in London in August. Green has been asked to resign from the government by Prime Minister Theresa May Wednesday and admitted he made "misleading" statements about allegations pornography that was found on his Commons computer in 2008.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police Superintendent Lito Patay, regional chief of the Criminal and Investigation Detection Group (CIDG), poses outside his office at Camp Olivas police camp in San Fernando, Pampanga in the Philippines Dec. 11.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone (left) holds a meeting with Hu Yaobang, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, in November 1986 in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Line Corp. Chief Executive Officer Takeshi Idezawa (left) shakes hands with an executive from Mobike at a Wednesday news conference in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mussels in white wine and tomato sauce are served at a restaurant in Warsaw. Microplastics have been detected in mussels worldwide.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kengoro, a humanoid robot developed by researchers at the University of Tokyo, can do stretches like humans and even artificially perspire. Asano, Okada, Inaba, Sci. Robot. 2, eaaq0899 (2017)]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Germans demonstrate against the weed killer glyphosate in Nuremberg on Dec. 15 during the congress of the conservative Christian Social Union.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/21/national/japan-sees-26-million-foreign-visitors-january-november-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-21T15:59:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo is aiming to raise the annual number of foreign visitors to 40 million in 2020 and 60 million in 2030.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/business/corporate-business/asahi-sell-stake-chinas-tsingtao-941-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-21T16:28:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers check the labeling on beer packages on a production line at the Tsingtao Brewery in Qingdao, in China's Shandong Province.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-21T16:52:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-21T16:54:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers browse products at Japan House Los Angeles in Hollywood on Wednesday. The newly opened shop is the second of three planned stores worldwide.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-21T16:56:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Murata Manufacturing booth is seen at a trade show in Tokyo. The Kyoto-based firm is boosting capacity to build foldable circuits for Apple's new iPhone lineup.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/21/business/financial-markets/bank-japan-maintains-stimulus-inflation-lags-behind-economic-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-21T17:19:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security guard stands at the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. The central bank left monetary stimulus unchanged after a two-day policy meeting that wrapped up Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/21/national/crime-legal/father-cleared-fatal-assault-5-month-old-daughter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-21T17:19:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-21T17:20:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-21T17:27:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-21T17:34:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba said Thursday it will invest some ¥7 billion to procure land in Iwate Prefecture to build a new flash memory plant to meet rising demand.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-21T17:57:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-21T19:56:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-21T20:34:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The National Police Agency has warned that 20,000 scam e-commerce sites were operating in the second half of 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-21T20:34:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ivory products are on sale with price tags, at an antiques fairs on June 24 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-22T07:54:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Trump International Hotel in Washington is seen last December. On Thursday, a New York judge rejected a lawsuit by restaurant workers, a hotel event booker and a watchdog group who say President Donald Trump has business conflicts that violate the Constitution. The lawsuit was rejected by federal Judge George Daniels, who says the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescued passengers from the M/V Mercraft 3 disembark from a boat that helped in the rescue operation on Thursday at Infanta township, Quezon province in northeastern Philippines.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-22T18:40:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The last set of overhauled Kannon bodhisattva are placed at Kyoto's Sanjusangendo Hall on Friday, ending a 45-year cleanup job.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-22T19:10:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-22T19:12:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-22T19:17:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-22T19:22:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oi reactors No. 1 (front) and No. 2, run by Kansai Electric Power Co. in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, have been scheduled to be decommissioned.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-22T19:54:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in visits the site of a building fire in Jecheon on Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. South Korea's government on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-22T20:37:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Transport ministry officials arrive at Nissan Motor Co.'s headquarters in Yokohama on Friday to perform an inspection.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/22/national/births-japan-head-new-time-low/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-22T20:37:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Births in Japan peaked in 1949 at about 2.70 million.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/22/national/japanese-government-vows-use-departure-tax-revenue-promote-tourism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-22T20:38:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (second from left) speaks at a Cabinet meeting Friday at the Prime Minister's Office to discuss tourism promotion.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-22T22:59:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S.-made AAV-7 amphibious vehicle rumbles onto the beach at the U.S. Marines' Camp Pendleton in California in February 2015. A delay in delivery to the Ground Self-Defense Force means Japan's new amphibious unit will launch in March with only seven AAV-7s.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (center) and Cabinet ministers pose for a photo before a Cabinet meeting to approve the nation's budget on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-23T13:08:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This illustration shows a fluid-filled incubation system that mimics a mother's womb, being developed to support extremely premature babies until their lungs and other organs can handle regular medical care.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force troops conduct a November emergency missile drill in Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, in which a ballistic missile is presumed to have injured residents. The defense budget will swell to a record ¥5.19 trillion for fiscal 2018 as the nation shores up its defenses against provocative North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/23/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/melbourne-driver-charged-attempted-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-23T14:01:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer detains the driver of the car that rammed into pedestrians in Melbourne at Flinders Street Station on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-23T14:19:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honduran opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla addresses the media in Tegucigalpa on Friday after the U.S. backed the re-election of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez despite allegations of fraud by the opposition.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan has issued a statement urging publisher Iwanami Shoten to correct its definition of the island state in the Kojien dictionary, which describes it as a province of China.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) and Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull hold bilateral talks in Manila on Nov. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-25T20:38:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kumamoto Municipal Assemblywoman Yuka Ogata holds her baby in the assembly hall on Nov. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/25/national/sumo-stablemaster-takanohana-finally-submits-questioning-jsa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-25T23:12:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takanohana returns his stable building in Tokyo on Monday after he was interviewed by the Japan Sumo Association for an assault incident in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/25/national/town-futaba-kicks-off-radiation-cleanup-eye-2022-revival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-26T01:13:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Decontamination work begins Monday in the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, to make it habitable again by spring 2022 under a government-led reconstruction project.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T01:15:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eri Fujii shows off a Louis Vuitton tote and its fancy packaging. She received her favorite bag through Laxus, a luxury brand bag-sharing app.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/25/national/science-health/health-ministry-uses-anime-spread-word-coughing-etiquette/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-26T01:20:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The health ministry's new campaign on coughing etiquette uses characters from the popular anime "Attack on Titan."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T04:16:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mika Nishiyama, a former hospital worker who is seeking a retrial after she was found guilty of causing the death of a patient, speaks to the media in Shiga Prefecture on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T06:48:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T06:49:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a Security Council meeting in Moscow Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T10:59:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A handout picture taken Sunday and released on Monday by the Femen group shows a police officer running toward a Femen activist standing topless in front of the Nativity scene in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T11:09:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists are evacuated from a hotel during an earthquake of magnitude 5 in Acapulco, Guerrero state, Mexico, Monday. No damage or victims have been reported so far.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T11:12:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, are seen inspecting the damage at a Roman ruin site in Daraa, Syria, Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T13:56:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The suspects were quoted as telling investigators they used a manual that outlined how to get customers hooked on the games.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T13:59:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/25/national/annual-comic-book-sales-set-sink-amid-dearth-popular-titles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-26T14:11:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Combined sales of magazines and books for the year are expected to total ¥1.37 trillion, which is equivalent to 52 percent of their 1996 peak.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T14:44:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters crowd JR Akihabara Station in Tokyo. Some experts see a 1 percent increase in Japanese workers' total earnings next year, the most since 1997.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/26/business/tokyo-university-bound-regional-high-school-grads-coached-finding-jobs-back-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-26T15:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T15:11:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T15:46:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for photographs before talks in Danang, Vietnam, on Nov. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/26/business/japan-lift-17-year-ban-beef-imports-uruguay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-26T15:47:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T15:50:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T15:51:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T17:04:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Korean Central News Agency photo shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Dec. 23 at a Worker's Party conference.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T17:05:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono lays a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/26/national/land-ownership-riddles-aging-japan-come-cost-stifle-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-26T17:24:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[No one knows who owns this vacant house in the city of Saitama.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T17:25:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A torii gate in Liberdade, Sao Paolo's Japanese district.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T17:26:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha speaks at a news conference at the ministry in Seoul on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/25/national/crime-legal/parents-dead-woman-western-japan-reportedly-admit-confining-15-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-26T17:54:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers stand guard Monday in front of a house in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, where a 33-year-old woman was reportedly confined for 15 years by her parents.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T19:34:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T19:34:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump feeds carp with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before their working lunch at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 6]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T19:34:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T19:35:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania throw plumeria flower petals while visiting the Pearl Harbor Memorial in Honolulu on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T19:36:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump addresses members of U.S. military services and Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) at U.S. Air Force Yokota Air Base on Sunday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/02/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-get-warm-welcome-abe-japan-including-steak-dinner-round-golf/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-26T19:37:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T19:39:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in February in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T19:39:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe give a news conference on Monday at the State Guest House in Tokyo. KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/06/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-touts-solidarity-japan-refuses-shy-away-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-26T19:41:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe take part in a welcoming ceremony at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-26T19:41:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with American and Japanese business leaders at the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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